A LITTLE BOY, DYING IN THE SAME MONASTERY, CALLED UPON A
VIRGIN THAT WAS TO FOLLOW HIM; ANOTHER AT THE POINT
OF LEAVING HER BODY, SAW SOME SMALL PART OF THE FUTURE
GLORY.
There was, in the same monastery, a boy, not above three years old, called Esica; who, by reason of his infant age, was bred up among the virgins dedicated to God, and there to meditate. This child being seized by: the aforesaid pestilence, when he was at the last gasp, called three times upon one of the virgins consecrated to God, directing his words to her by her own name, as if she had been present, Eadgyth, Eadgyth, Eadgyth! and thus ending his temporal life, entered into that which is eternal. The virgin, whom he called, was immediately seized, where she was, with the same distemper, and departing this life the same day on which she had been called, followed him that called her into the heavenly country.
Likewise, one of those same servants of God, being ill of the same disease, and reduced to extremity, began on a sudden, about midnight, to cry out to them that attended her, desiring they would put out the candle that was lighted there; which, when she had often repeated, and yet no one did it, at last she said, "I know you think I speak this in a raving fit, but let me inform you it is not so; for I tell you, that I see this house filled with so much light, that your candle there seems to me to be dark." And when still no one regarded what she said, or returned any answer, she added, "Let that candle burn as long as you will; but take notice, that it is not my light, for my light will come to me at the dawn of the day." Then she began to tell, that a certain man of God, who had died that same year, had appeared to her, telling her that at the break of day she should
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Publication information:
Book title: The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation.
Contributors: Saint Bede the Venerable - Author.
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd..
Place of publication: London.
Publication year: 1910.
Page number: 211.
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