Tunna

Role: priest and abbot · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XXII

Life events

• c. 678 · Tunna mistakenly buried another man as Imma and began offering Masses for his brother.(Book IV · Chap. XXII · 📍 Tunnacaestir)
  • With: Imma
  • “So he carried it to his monastery, and buried it honourably, and took care often to say Masses for the absolution of his soul”

Book IV · Chap. XXII

• siblings with Imma (Tunna is Imma’s brother.) “Now he had a brother called Tunna, who was a priest and abbot of a monastery in the city which is still called Tunnacaestir after him.”
• with Imma (Tunna offered Masses and interceded for Imma.) “Now he had a brother called Tunna, who was a priest and abbot of a monastery in the city which is still called Tunnacaestir after him. This man, hearing that his brother had been killed in the battle, went to see if haply he could find his body; and finding another very like him in all respects, he believed it to be his. So he carried it to his monastery, and buried it honourably, and took care often to say Masses for the absolution of his soul”

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