[5] The great king Alfred, who honored St. PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLEFrom his life by Ignatius, deacon of Constantinople, afterwards bishopof Nice, a contemporary author; and from the relation of his banishmentby Theophanes. ed to a lion, and not beingdispatched by that beast, but only mangled, was at length killed by thesword. His three children, Winebald,Willibald, and Warburga, are all honored as saints.
He was slain fighting against thepagans, after a reign of nineteen years, and buried at Blitheburg: hisremains were afterwards removed to St. Gregory for their bishop, although heopposed his election with all his power. cles which he was unwilling to allow was his chief motive forraising such a contest about the author; though if this was not St. Other Irish canons, published in the ninth tome of D'Achery's Spicilege, and more by Martenne, (Anecd.
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