Boisil

Family: Church · Role: provost and priest · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XXVII

Life events

c. 684 · Boisil instructed Cuthbert in Scripture and exemplary conduct.(Book IV · Chap. XXVII · 📍 Mailros)
- With: Cuthbert
- “Cuthbert, humbly submitting himself to this man’s direction, from him received both a knowledge of the Scriptures, and an example of good works.”
c. 684 · Boisil died.(Book IV · Chap. XXVII · 📍 Mailros)
- “After he had departed to the Lord, Cuthbert became provost of that monastery”
c. 692 · Boisil’s vision instructed Egbert to teach Columba’s monasteries instead of pursuing his planned journey.(Book V · Chap. IX)
- With: Egbert
- “Boisil, that was sometime my master and brought me up in all love, appeared to me, and asked, whether I knew him? I said, ‘Yes, you are Boisil.’ He answered, ‘I am come to bring Egbert a message from our Lord and Saviour, which must nevertheless be delivered to him by you. Tell him, therefore, that he cannot perform the journey he has undertaken; for it is the will of God that he should rather go to teach the monasteries of Columba.’”

pupil: Cuthbert “Cuthbert, humbly submitting himself to this man’s direction, from him received both a knowledge of the Scriptures, and an example of good works.”

with Cuthbert (Boisil's prophecy helped persuade Cuthbert to accept the episcopate.) “being chiefly prevailed upon by the words of Boisil, the servant of God, who, when he had prophetically foretold all things that were to befall him, had also predicted that he should be a bishop.”

with Egbert (Boisil's vision conveys a message to Egbert.) “I am come to bring Egbert a message from our Lord and Saviour, which must nevertheless be delivered to him by you. Tell him, therefore, that he cannot perform the journey he has undertaken; for it is the will of God that he should rather go to teach the monasteries of Columba.”
with Eata (Boisil served as provost under Abbot Eata.) “when the said Boisil was provost of the monastery of Mailros, under the Abbot Eata”

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