Jaruman
Family: Church · Role: bishop · First appears: Book III · Chap. XXX
Life events
- c. 664 · Wulfhere sent Bishop Jaruman to correct the East Saxons’ apostasy and restore their faith.(Book III · Chap. XXX)
- With: Wulfhere
- “King Wulfhere, hearing that the faith of the province was in part profaned, sent Bishop Jaruman, who was successor to Trumhere, to correct their error, and recall the province to the true faith.”
- c. 664 · Jaruman brought Sighere and the people back to Christianity, leading them to abandon temples and reopen churches.(Book III · Chap. XXX)
- With: Sighere
- “travelling through all the country, far and near, brought back both the people and the aforesaid king to the way of righteousness, so that, either forsaking or destroying the temples and altars which they had erected, they opened the churches, and gladly confessed the Name of Christ, which they had opposed”
Book III · Chap. XXX
- pupil: Sighere “He acted with much discretion, as I was informed by a priest who bore him company in that journey, and had been his fellow labourer in the Word, for he was a religious and good man, and travelling through all the country, far and near, brought back both the people and the aforesaid king to the way of righteousness, so that, either forsaking or destroying the temples and altars which they had erected, they opened the churches, and gladly confessed the Name of Christ, which they had opposed, choosing rather to die in the faith of resurrection in Him, than to live in the abominations of unbelief among their idols.”
- with Wulfhere (Sent as an agent to restore the faith.) “King Wulfhere, hearing that the faith of the province was in part profaned, sent Bishop Jaruman, who was successor to Trumhere, to correct their error, and recall the province to the true faith.”
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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.