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r this state; and in the discharge of his duties, a person oughtalways to unite contemplation with action, and reserve In the secondsummer he was discovered by certain shepherds, who brought him a littlecoarse bread; which some country people from that time continued to doas long as he lived. To the numerous penitential austerities enjoined by hisorder, he added as many more as an ingenious self-denial could devise. William of Malmesbury[2] and John Fordun[3]mention his prophecies and miracles.

ive sons, provokedagainst their sovereign because he had repressed their unjust violencesagainst the noble family De Straten. The long thin knife with which he was stabbed, was keptin the church at Faversham, before the suppression of the monasteries,as Hearne mentions. He was surnamedAgathangel, or Good-angel, and extremely respected by the people for hissanctity. His relics were found in 1626 atKeiserswerdt, in a silver shrine, together with those of St.