Rodoald, king of Lombardy, i. 7.
Rodolf, king of Burgundy, i. 22.
Rodolf, I., emperor, i. 94.
Rodolf II., emperor, i. 94.
Rodolf, duke of Transjurane Bur-
gundy, ii. 47.

Rodolf III., king of Arles, ii. 51.
Rodolfo, bishop of Eugubio, i.
211.

Rodolph, emperor, i. 130.

Roger L, grand count of Sicily, i.
114.

Roger II., count of Sicily, crowned
king of the Two Sicilies by the
antipope Anacletus II., i. 115.
His title confirmed by Innocent
II., 117. His death, 118.
Rollo, the Dane, duke of Nor.
mandy, ti. 47.

Roman jurisprudence, ii. 124.
Roncaglia, the diet of, resolutions
of, i. 37.

Rosamund, wife of Alboin, her per-
fidy and tragical fate, i. 6.
Rota, the abbey of, founded in 1096,
by Robert of Arbrissel, ii. 291.
Rudolf of Hapsburgh, elected em-
peror of Germany by letters
patent; renounces all claim over
nearly all the territories com-
prised in the gift of Charlemagne,
and the bequest of Matilda; he
sanctions the concordat, i. 164.
His talents and valour; his war
with Ottocar of Bohemia, ii. 112.
His death, 113.

Ruined Stone Wall, a Saxon frag.
ment, iv. 30.

S.

Sabas Malaspina, i. 251.

Saberct, king of Essex, iii. 158.
St. Abelard, abbot of Corbey, ii. 167.
Founder of the. New Corbey, in
Westphalia, 168.

St. Adalbert, bishop of Prague ;
his labours for the reformation
of the clergy and their flocks;
his moral cowardice; his dislike
to Prague, ii. 272. Hit humility
while in the palace of Otho III,
273. His dislike to the Bohe-
mians; he repairs to Poland, and
preaches the Gospel to the pagan
Prussians, 274. His murder by
a pagan priest, 275.

St. Adelaide, widow of Otho the
Great, ii. 51.

St. Ado, archbishop of Vienne, ii.

254.

St. Agobard of Lyons, ii. 254

St. Aidan, a monk of Iona, founder
of the see of Lindisfarne; his
efforts for the conversion of the
Northumbrians, iii. 180.

St. Ailred, the celebrated abbot of
Rivaulx, iv. 247. Author of the
Lives of St. Edward the Confes-
sor, St. David king, and St. Mar-
garet queen, of Scotland; his
Homilies on Isaiah; his work
in three books on Spiritual
Friendship, 248. Extract from
his Nun of Walton, 249. Ex-
tract from his Speculum Chari-
tatis, 254.

St. Alcuin, born in 735, extracts
from his works; his Farewell to
his Cell, iv. 111. His treatise on
Dialectics, 130. His treatise De
Anima, 131.

St. Aldhelm, an Anglo-Saxon monk,
birth of; early education of; the
first Englishman who composed
Latin verse according to known
rules, iv. 75. Elected governor of
the monastery of Malmesbury,76.
Anecdote of, 77. Nominated to
the bishopric of Sherburn; death
of, in 709, 78. His works; his
style; his work on the dignity of
the number seven; his letter to
the monks of St. Wilfrid, 80. Ex-
tracts from his poem De Laude
Virginum, 83. His treatise De
Octo Principalibus Vitiis, 92.
St. Ambrose, the church of, at
Milan; two philosophical schools
attached to, in the eleventh cen-
tury, i. 234.

St. Ambrose Autpert, author of a
commentary on the Apocalypse,
ii. 244.

St. Anscar, his character, ii. 207.
His mission to Denmark, 209.
His mission to Sweden; he falls
in with Scandinavian pirates, 210.
Return of, to France ; anointed
bishop of Hamburg; appointed
papal legate, 211. Deprived of
the means of support; again
applies himself to the northern
mission, 212. His death, on the
3d day of February, 865, 215.
St. Anselm, born in Italy, in 1033,
iv. 150. Becomes prior of Bec;
his elevation to the dignity of
abbot, 151. Nomination of, to
the archbishopric of Canterbury,
152. Proceedings instituted
against him in the king's name
by the notorious Flambard, 153,
He refuses to abjure the autho
rity of Pope Urban II.; hostility
of the king in consequence, 154.
His authority abjured; his letter

to pope Urban on his resolving to
leave England, 155. Recall of, on
the accession of Henry I., 156.
His first interview with Henry I.;
he visits Rome, 157. Receives
an order to remain in exile until
he should sanction the preten-
sions of the crown; his recon-
ciliation with Henry I., 158. His
death, in 1109; his works, 162.
A condensed view of his work,
De Concordia Præscientiæ et
Prædestinationis necnon Gratiæ
Dei cum libero Arbitrio, 163.
St. Anthelmo, the Carthusian, i.
211

St. Antony of Padua, born at Lis-
bon, in 1195; becomes a Francis-
can prior; his mission to Africa,
i. 308. His doctrine; his preach-
ing;
his death, on the 13th of
June, 1231; two or three samples
of the miracles related concerning
him, 311.

St. Augustine, arrival of, in Eng-
land, iii. 155. His interview with
Ethelbert, king of Kent, 156.
The archiepiscopal see of Canter-
bury, with the primacy, conferred
on him by the pope, 157.

His

two celebrated interviews with
the chief ecclesiastics, on the
confines of Cheshire and Wales,
159. His correspondence with
pope Gregory, 162. Miracles at-
tributed to, 165. His death, in
605, 166.

St. Austregesil, bishop of Bourges,
extract from his life, ii. 191.
St. Avitus, bishop of Vienne, born
at Auvergne, celebrated for his
defence of the Athanasian creed,
ii. 220. His poems, 221.
St. Bartholomew, born in the
neighbourhood of Whitby, in
Yorkshire; vision of, iv. 236. His
eremetical life, 238. Miracles as.
cribed to, 239.

St. Benedict, the patriarch

of

monks, born in 480, in the city
of Nurcia, i. 180. His parentage,
181. Becomes abbot, 182. An
attempt made to poison him, 183.
He erects the monastery of Monte
Casino; his death, in 543, 184.
His famous rule, 185.

St. Benedict of Aniana; his pa-
rentage; his austerities, i. 285.
He builds a monastery on his
He
patrimonial estate, 286.
founds the monastery of Aix-la-
Chapelle, 288.

St. Benedict Biscop, born in Nor-
thumbria about the year 630, iii.
194. He founds the monastery

of Wearmouth; he visits Rome
five times; he founds the mo-
nastery of Jarrow, 195. Death
of, in 690, 196.

St. Bernard, his sermon against the
Manichæan errors, i. 299.

St. Bernard, born near Dijon, in
1091, ii. 285. The perverse suc-
cess of his proselytism, 286.
Becomes abbot of Clairvaux; his
character, 287. His zeal for the
crusade, 288. His death, Au-
gust 20., 1158; his personal
character; observations on his
literary qualifications, 289.
St. Bernard, surnamed of Tiron,
born in Ponthieu, abbot of St.
Cyprian, ii. 292. Persecution of,
by the monks of Clugny, 293.
Refuses the dignity of cardinal;
he founds the monastery of Char-
tres, in 1109, 293.

St. Boisil, prior of Melrose, iii. 202.
Death of, 203.

St. Boniface, the apostle of Ger-
many, a native of Devonshire, ii.
195. Consecrated bishop; his
labours in Thuringia for the ex-
tinction of idolatry, 196. Ap-
pointed archbishop and papal
legate; his letters to his friends
at Winchester, 197. His policy,
198. His prophetical letter to the
priest Fulred, 200. His instruc-
tions to St. Lully; his martyrdom,
201.

St. Bruno, a native of Cologne, i
278. Founder of the celebrated
order of Carthusians; he founds
another monastery in the desert
of Calabria: his death, in 1101,280
St. Buonaventura, born in Tuscany,
in 1221; his death, i. 218.

St. Burchard, bishop of Wirsburg,
ii. 203.

St. Catherine, a Dominician sister,
extract from her life, written by
her confessor, i. 219. Her im-
positions, 220.

St. Cesarius of Arles, born at Châ-
lons-sur-Saone, in 470.; receives
the tonsure at eighteen; his aus-
terities; his preaching; banish-
ment of, ii. 224. His treatment
of the prisoners after the ineffec-
tual siege of Arles, 225. His in-
terview in Italy with Theodoric;
his death in 543; his sermons;
his character as a preacher, 226
An extract from an exhortation
of, on the frequent perusal of the
Holy Scriptures, 227. His homily
on the last judgment, 229.
St. Chad, the celebrated bishop of
Lichfield, iii. 192,

St. Clair, a native of Assisi; her
austerities, i. 217. The order of
the rule of, 309.

St. Columba, founder of the mo-
nastery of Iona, iii. 179.
St. Columbanus, a native of Lein-
ster; his future greatness pre-
dicted by his mother before his
birth; enters the monastery of
Bangor, in the county Down,
ii. 178. His mission to France,
179. Rigour of his rule; his
disputes respecting the time of
Easter; pertinacity of his cha-
racter, 180. He addresses a letter
to the Gallic prelates; his un-
compromising hostility to vice,
181. His exile, 182. Anecdote
of, 183. Second exile of; he
founds the monastery of Bobbio,
in Lombardy, 185. His rule; his
compositions, 187.

St. Cuthbert, the time and place of
the birth of, unknown, iii. 197.
Miracles ascribed to, 198. Made
prior of Melrose, 202. Made
prior of Lindisfarne, 203. Be-
comes an anchoret in the island
of Farne; his predictions, 204.
Consecrated bishop of Hexham,
205. Becomes bishop of Lindis-
farne, 206. His dying discourse
with Herefrid, abbot of Lindis
farne, 207. Fate of his bones,
208.

St. Domingo de Gusman, founder

of the Dominican friars, born in
the year 1170, in the diocese of
Osma, i. 291. Made canon of
the cathedral of Osma, 292.
St. Dominic Loricatus; his auste-
rities; death of, at Bologna, i.
207.
St. Dominic, preaches a crusade
against the Albigenses; his cha-
racter, i. 303. His cruelties; at-
tends the fourth council of La-
teran, 304. Adopts the rule of
St. Augustine for his order; mar-
vels related of, 305. He founds
a monastery at Madrid and
another at Segovia, 306.

St. Dunstan, born in Wessex, iii.

261. His infancy, 262. His in-
troduction to the court of Athel-
stan; the extraordinary manner
in which he was expelled from
court, 263. His conversion, 264.
His monastic profession, 265. A
legend respecting; obtains the
abbacy of Glastonbury, 266. His
dream; appointed to the bishop-
rics of Worcester and London,

267.

He succeeds Odo in the
primacy, 268. Portents respect-
ing the birth of, 269. Another
account of his early life, 270.
Vindication of, from various
charges, 276. Pontificate of, 277.
His efforts for the reformation of
the clergy, 286. Accusation of
murder brought against, 289.
Death of, in 988, 295. Character
of, 296.

St. Ebba, abbess of Coldingham,
iii. 215.

St. Edilthryda, the queen of Egfrid,
abbess of the monastery of the
isle of Ely, iii. 211.

St. Edmund, archbishop of Canter-
bury; his education; his reluct-
ance to accept of the primacy;
his election to the primacy, iv.
256. His attempts at the re-
formation of the church, 257.
His voluntary exile; his death,

259.

St. Elfleda, abbess of Whitby, iii.
215.

St. Elizabeth, surnamed of Scho-
nage, born in 1130, in the diocese
of Trèves, ii. 299. Her pretended
revelations; her death, 301.
St. Elphege, a monk of the monas-
tery of Deerhurst; his early life;
he founds a monastery at Bath,
iii. 298. Consecrated bishop
of Winchester, 300. His auste-
rities, 301. His elevation to the
dignity of primate, 302. His
sufferings and death, 304.

St. Emmeren of Poitiers, ii. 193.
St. Ermenilda, abbess of the mo-
nasteries of Sheppey and Ely, iii.
215.

St. Ethelberga, abbess of the abbey
of Barking, iii. 234.
St. Ethelgiva, iii. 234.

St. Ethelwold, a native of Win-
chester; his early life; obtains
the deaconry of Glastonbury; he
founds the monastery of Abing-
don; made bishop of Winchester,
iii. 282.

St. Eusebius of Vercelli, i. 226.
St. Faustus, the biographer of St.
Maur, ii. 173.

St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the
Franciscans, i. 211. His conver-
sion, 212. His rule, 213. He
founds the severest monasteries,
214. His conversation with the
sultan; his death, 216. The
order of the Brethren of Peni-
tence founded by, 308. The order
of nuns, subject to St. Clair,
founded by, 309.
St. Frideswitha, iii. 217.

St. Gall, the monk of, author of a
history of Charlemagne; extract
from his works, ii. 256. Another
extract from the work of, exhi-
biting the credulity and super-
stition of the country, 258.
St. Généviève, ii, 169.
St. Germanus, ii. 169.

St. Gilbert of Sempringham, born
in 1083, presented with the two
livings of Sempringham and Tor.
rington, iv. 241. He founds thir-
teen double monasteries, 243. His
honourable conduct towards Tho-
mas à Becket, 245.

St. Godelef, one of the most cele-
brated saints of the Netherlands;
her marriage with a Flemish no-
bleman; becomes the victim of
ill usage, ii. 298. Her violent
death, 299.

St. Goimbold, abbot of Winchester,
iii. 234.

St. Gregory the Great, born at
Rome in 540; his parentage; he
founds six monasteries in Sicily,
i. 192. His mission to Constan-
tinople; his homilies on the book
of Job, 193. His epistle to Narses;
his pastoral, 194. The first who
introduced singing into the ser-
vice of the church, 195.
death (in 604); his dialogues on
the life and miracles of St. Bene-
dict, 195. His character of the
Lombards, 229.

His

St. Gregory of Tours, his original
name, Georgius Florantius; his
early life, ii. 230. Elected bishop
of Tours in 573; he defends St.
Pretextatus against Chilperic and
Fredegund; his character and
death in 595, 232. His works, 233.
An extract from his Historia
Ecclesiastica, 234. Extracts from
his works, illustrative of his de-
scriptive powers, 235. Further
extracts; his family, 238. His
account of the sedition and ex-
cesses committed in the nunnery
of Poitiers, 239.

St. Gregory of Utrecht, the man-
ner in which he became connect-
ed in the fortunes of St. Boniface,
ii. 263. An anecdote character-
istic of his moderation; his
death in 776, 204.

St. Guthlake; his character, iii. 219.

His predatory career, 220. His
eremetical life, 222. A legend
respecting his friendship with
Ethelbald, king of Mercia; his
death in 714, 226.

St. Hilda, abbess of Whitby, iii.
214.

St. Hildegarde, ii. 301.
St. Hildelita, abbess of the monas-
tery of Barking, iii. 215.
St. Ina, king of the West Saxons;
laws of, iii. 70. Founds the
monastery of Glastonbury; abdi-
cation of, 232. His death, 233.
St. Isidore, his collection of ecclesi-
astical laws, i. 245.

St. Lawrence, archbishop of Can-
terbury, troubles during the
primacy of, iii. 166.

St. Leger, bishop of Autun, ii. 15.
St. Libanus, an English missionary,
ii. 204.

St. Louis, king of France, marriage
of, with Margaret of Provence;
his character, ii. 57. Joins the
crusade in Syria; his captivity,
and ransom; he assumes the cross
a second time, 58. His code of
laws, 74.

St. Ludger, a missionary of the
Frisans and Saxons; a story re-
lated of the mother of, 206. His
death, in 809, 207.

St. Nilus of Calabria, a Greek by

birth; his mode of life, i. 205.
His death, 207.

St. Norbert, founder of the order

of the Premonstratensians, born
in 1080, in the duchy of Cleves;
anecdote of, ii. 294. Elected
archbishop of Magdeburg; seve-
rity of his institute, ii. 296.
St. Odo, archbishop of Canterbury,
iii. 234. His early life; his ex-
emplary conduct, 255. His seve
rity towards himself and others,
257. His death and character,
259.

St. Oldegario, a native of Barcelona,
first archbishop of Tarragona;
his death, i. 289.

St. Oswald, king of Bernicia, iii.
181.

St. Oswald, canon and dean of Win-
chester, resigns his dignity and
becomes a Benedictine monk, iii.
279. Made archbishop of York,
281. He founds the monastery of
Ramsey, 288. His death, in 992,
285.

St. Oswin, king of Deira, his tragical
fate, iii. 182.

St. Otho, bishop of Bamberg, a na-
tive of Swabia, ii. 276. His mis-
sion to Pomerania; return of, to
Bamberg, 277.

St. Peter Damian, born at Ravenna,
in 1007; becomes bishop of
Ostia, and a cardinal; his fame
as an expounder of the Holy
Scriptures, i. 209. His death, in
1072, 210. His character, 211.
St. Peter of Verona, i. 218.
St. Peter Celestin, founder of the
order which bears his name, i.
221.

St. Plegmund, archbishop of Can-
terbury, iii. 234.

St. Pretextatus, bishop of Rome;
his dubious character; his con-
duct with respect to Brunehild,
ii. 170. His assassination, 171.
St. Raymundo of Peñafort, a native
of Barcelona; his virtue and
learning; obtains the degree of
doctor and a professor's chair at
Bologna, i. 314. Assumes the
habit of the Dominicans; draws
up the constitution for the Order
of Mercy; becomes confessor of
Don Jayme, 315. His works;
his
death, 316.

St. Raymundo Lully, born in Ma-
jorca; his early life, i. 315. His
conversion; he composes his first
work, the Ars Major, or Gene-
ralis, 316. He translates several
treatises into Arabic; his
reasonings on the Trinity with
the Moors, 317. He is stoned to
death by the Moors; his charac-
ter by himself, 318.

St. Robert, surnamed de Molême, a
gentleman of Champagne, founds
the order of the Cistercians, at
Citeaux, ii. 283. Return of, to
Molême; his death, 284.

St. Robert, a Cistercian monk, abbot
of a Cistercian monastery near
the Tyne, ii. 235.

St. Romuald, founder of the order
of Camaldula, i. 196. His conver-
sion, 197. His austerities, 198.
His death, 199.
St. Rusticola, an extract referring
to the close of her life, ii. 189.
St. Seine (Sequanus) founds a mo-
nastery in Burgundy; an extract
of his life, ii. 190.

St. Sexburga, abbess of the monas-
teries of Sheppey and Ely, iii. 215.
St. Stephen, the third abbot of the
Cistercians, the first dignitary
who instituted chapters general,
ii. 282.

St. Sturm, a native of Bononia,
founds the monasteries of Hirs-
field and Fulda, ii. 205.
St. Swithin, bishop of Winchester,
iii. 234.

St. Thomas à Becket, born in Lon-
don, in 1117; his parentage; his
education; rapidity of his pro-
motion; presented with the chan-
cellorship, iv. 172. His vast and
magnificent household; his fami-
liarity with the king; his em $
bassy to Paris; surprise of the
French at his princely retinue,
173. His able and beneficial ad-
ministration, 174. His appoint-
ment to the see of Canterbury,
175. He resigns the chancellor-
ship, 176. A remarkable change
takes place in his conduct and
character, 177. His austerities,
178. He institutes proceedings for
the recovery of the church lands,
179. He incurs the royal dis-
pleasure, 182. Deprived of the
manor of Rye and the castle of
Berkhampstead, 183. He consents
to observe the "customs;" he
refuses to sign the constitutions
of Clarendon, 186. Is summoned
to appear before the parliament
at Northampton; the charges
brought against him; his defence,
188. His answer to the bishops
who came to preach submission
to him, 193. His magnanimity
and courage at his trial, 194. His
flight, 197. His reception by
Louis VII. of France, 198. His
reception by the pope; assumes
the Cistercian habit in the mo-
nastery of Pontigny; confiscation
of his estates, 199. The sentence
of confiscation and banishment
pronounced against all who were
connected with him by blood or
friendship, 200. An unfortunate
change takes place in his habits,
opinions, and feelings, 201. His
interview with Henry II., in a
meadow near Freitoille in Tou-
raine, 203. Duplicity of Henry II.
towards him, 204. Return of, to
England, 208. Murder of, 210.
A few observations on the cir-
cumstances which led to his fate,
213. Canonisation of, 221.
St. Thomas Aquinas, born in 1225,
in the Campania of Naples; his
illustrious birth, i. 247. Becomes
a Dominican monk; he explains
the Book of Sentences, by Peter
the Lombard, 248. Obtains the
degree of doctor; his treatise
in defence of his order; refuses