Herebald

Role: clerk · First appears: Book V · Chap. VI

Life events

c. 684 · Herebald fell from his horse, fracturing his skull and losing all sense and motion.(Book V · Chap. VI)
- “I fell, and at once lost all sense and motion, like one dying”
c. 684 · The bishop prayed over and blessed Herebald, restoring him enough to sit and speak.(Book V · Chap. VI)
- With: the bishop
- “He then laid his hand on my head, with the words of blessing, and returned to prayer; when he came again to see me, in a short time, he found me sitting and able to talk”
c. 684 · The bishop catechized Herebald after declaring his previous baptism invalid.(Book V · Chap. VI)
- With: the bishop
- “This said, he set himself to catechize me that same hour”
c. 684 · After receiving the bishop’s blessing, Herebald recovered enough to mount a horse and travel.(Book V · Chap. VI)
- With: the bishop
- “presently having received his blessing, I was so much better that I mounted on horseback the next day”
c. 684 · Herebald became perfectly recovered and was baptized in the water of life.(Book V · Chap. VI)
- “and being soon after perfectly recovered, I was washed in the water of life”

employer: Bishop John “He was then one of that bishop’s clergy, but now presides as abbot in the monastery at the mouth of the river Tyne.”
mentor: Bishop John “This said, he set himself to catechize me that same hour; and it came to pass that when he breathed on my face, straightway I felt better.”
with Bishop John (Bishop John recalled Herebald from the threshold of death.) “having been by his prayer and blessing recalled from the threshold of death and brought back to the way of life.”

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