The golden days of the early English church from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . o a; u Q w a Pi w PQH u RELICS IN ST. CUTHBERHTS COFFIN 99 Montacute. He gave it to Doctor Richard Smith,Roman Catholic Bishop of Chalcedon, who statesthese facts in his Flores Historiarwn, p. 120. Accord-ing to Alban Butler, he gave it to the Monasteryof English Canonesses at Paris, who also preserveda tooth of the Saint.^ In 1855 it was transferredto St. Cuthberhts College at Ushaw. There is afigure of it in the ArchcBologia yEliana, vi. 66-68. Cuthberhts pectoral cross was also found in hiscoffin
The golden days of the early English church from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . o a; u Q w a Pi w PQH u RELICS IN ST. CUTHBERHTS COFFIN 99 Montacute. He gave it to Doctor Richard Smith,Roman Catholic Bishop of Chalcedon, who statesthese facts in his Flores Historiarwn, p. 120. Accord-ing to Alban Butler, he gave it to the Monasteryof English Canonesses at Paris, who also preserveda tooth of the Saint.^ In 1855 it was transferredto St. Cuthberhts College at Ushaw. There is afigure of it in the ArchcBologia yEliana, vi. 66-68. Cuthberhts pectoral cross was also found in hiscoffin in 1826, and is preserved at Durham. It isof the shape known as a cross pattde. It was foundamong the remains of the robes, and was attachedby a silken thread covered with gold. A cross, saysBishop Browne, with arms of the same type in themain motive, is figured in one of the magnificentpages of the Lindisfarne Gospels. The cross is ofgold, with a large garnet in the centre, another ineach angle, and twelve upon each of the loop by which it was suspended is of brightyellow gol
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