Eappa

Role: priest · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XIV

Life events

c. 678 · Eappa verified Oswald's death in the chronicle and ordered Masses and communal thanksgiving.(Book IV · Chap. XIV)
- With: Oswald
- “The priest believed what the boy said, and going thence immediately, looked in his chronicle, and found that King Oswald had been killed on that very day.”
c. 678 · Eappa's monastery lost the sick boy, while no other member died from the pestilence.(Book IV · Chap. XIV)
- “Soon after this, the boy died, on that same day; and by his death proved that the words which he had heard from the Apostles of Christ were true.”

with Oswald (Oswald's intercession is presented as obtaining relief for Eappa's monastery and its people.) “Call therefore to thee the priest, Eappa, and tell him, that the Lord has heard your prayers, and has favourably looked upon your devotion and your fast, and not one more shall die of this plague, either in the monastery or the lands adjacent to it; but all your people who any where labour under this sickness, shall be raised up from their weakness, and restored to their former health, saving thee alone, who art this day to be delivered from death, and to be carried into Heaven, to behold our Lord Christ, whom thou hast faithfully served. This favour the Divine mercy has vouchsafed to grant you, through the intercession of the godly King Oswald”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.