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his shrine was despoiled, by Arthur Dudley, Prebendary of Colwich 1531-77. 
After various extraordinary vicissitudes, and numerous translations, some of 
these relics, attested in a most complete manner, have found a resting-place 
with the Roman Catholics of S. Chad’s, Birmingham. See Records of the 
English Province S. J., 3rd and 8th Series; also an interesting summary 
by Rt. Rev. Bishop Abraham, in the Ist vol. of this Society’s publications. 
May we not pray that these oft-moved bones of the pious Bishop may eventually 
be once more translated to Lichfield ? 
7. This perhaps refers to the Palma Christi, or Gourd of Jonah. 
Herodotus tells us that the Egyptians called it A7v#z, and in several languages 
it has a name possibly akin to ‘‘Coket.” The plant is allied to the cocoa 
tree. Old Testament relics were of most exceptional occurrence. 
8. S. Amphibalus was in all probability, a mythical personage. The 
name arose out of the later writers thinking Amphibalus, the cloak of S. Alban, 
wasa man. (See Bright’s Early English Church History, p. 6.) Accor- 
ding to the legendary accounts of him, he was put to death three days after S. 
Alban, viz., on June 25th at Redburn, Herts. A church was built over his 
supposed relics at that village, but they were translated to the Abbey of S. 
Alban in 1186. It is said that he instructed British Christians at Lichfield, 
and that it was a party of his converts who were slaughtered by Diocletian’s 
minions at Chréstian Field, within the precincts of the city. Hence both 
the name and arms of the city. 
9, The rocky eminence on Mount Olivet, some three hundred yards above 
the Garden of Gethsemane, where our Lord wept over Jerusalem (S. Luke 
xiv. 41), is still identified by tradition, In the early Middle Ages, a church 
stood over this site, which was called Dominus Flevit. 
10. Wulfhad, the son of Wulfhere, King of Mercia, accidentally finding the 
cell of S. Chad at Stowe when out hunting, was converted by the saint to the 
true faith. Like S. Andrew, he brought his brother Rufin to the man of 
God, and he also was baptized. The brothers were both shortly afterwards 
murdered at the cell of S. Chad hy a pagan relative, c. 658. Hence they 
were honoured as martyred saints, and were commemorated on the day of 
their death, viz., July 24th. It was fitting that a relic of this saint should be 
preserved in the cathedral dedicated to his Father in God. The hagiologists, 
in treating of S. Wulfhad, have erroneously printed his death-place as Stone 
instead of Stoue or Stowe. 
11. We are unable to explain this term. 
12. S. Godric of Finchale, Durham, was a celebrated hermit, of wonderfully 
austere life. Amongst other severities, he is said to have mixed the grain that 
__he grew with ashes before converting it into bread. His usual dress was a 
hair shirt and haubergeon. His life is told in a most interesting way by 
_ Reginald of Durham (Surtees Society, Vol. 20). He diedin 1179. His shrine 
stood in the south transept of Finchale Priory Church, 
