Quoenburg

Role: nun and sick maiden · First appears: Book V · Chap. III

Life events

c. 684 · Quoenburg immediately began recovering after Wilfrid prayed and blessed her.(Book V · Chap. III · 📍 Wetadun)
- With: Wilfrid
- “As soon as the bishop had said the prayer for me and given me his blessing and had gone out, I immediately began to mend”
c. 684 · Quoenburg’s pain and swelling subsided, delivering her from suffering and death.(Book V · Chap. III · 📍 Wetadun)
- “the cure of the pain in her limbs was followed by the assuaging of the grievous swelling; and the maiden being thus delivered from pains and death”

parent: Heriburg “the abbess told us, that one of the nuns, who was her own daughter after the flesh, laboured under a grievous sickness”
sworn: Heriburg “But the abbess still earnestly entreated for her daughter, whom she dearly loved, and designed to make abbess in her stead”
with John (interaction) “Wherefore he went in, taking me with him to the maid, who lay, as I said, in sore anguish, and her arm swelling so greatly that it could not be bent at all at the elbow; and he stood and said a prayer over her, and having given his blessing, went out. Afterwards, as we were sitting at table, at the usual hour, some one came in and called me out, saying, ‘Quoenburg’ (that was the maid’s name) ‘desires that you should immediately go back to her.’ This I did, and entering the chamber, I found her of more cheerful countenance, and like one in good health.”
with Wilfrid (Wilfrid prayed over and blessed Quoenburg, after which she was healed.) “and he stood and said a prayer over her, and having given his blessing, went out”
with Berthun (Berthun and Quoenburg drank together after her recovery.) “When the cup was brought, and we had both drunk, she said”

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