Eadgyth

Role: virgin · First appears: Book IV · Chap. VIII

Life events

• c. 673 · Eadgyth died from the same sickness after Aesica called her.(Book IV · Chap. VIII)
  • “The virgin, to whom he called, as he was dying, was immediately seized, where she was, with the same sickness, and departing this life the same day on which she had been summoned”

Book IV · Chap. VIII

• with Aesica (Aesica called upon Eadgyth by name.) “This child being seized by the aforesaid pestilence, when his last hour was come, called three times upon one of the virgins consecrated to Christ, speaking to her by her own name, as if she had been present, Eadgyth! Eadgyth! Eadgyth!”
• with Aesica (Eadgyth died the same day and followed Aesica.) “The virgin, to whom he called, as he was dying, was immediately seized, where she was, with the same sickness, and departing this life the same day on which she had been summoned, followed him that called her into the heavenly kingdom.”

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