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correct), included the present parish of Bransdale-cum-Farndale, 

 a short account of this great Northumbrian Saint may not be 

 without interest. You will have noticed, no doubt, the name of 

 this Saint opposite the date of March 2nd, the day of his death, 

 in the Calendar in your prayer book or your almanack. Chad 

 lived about the middle of the seventh century, and was one of 

 four brothers, of whom the eldest was probably Cedd, and all of 

 whom became priests. They were no doubt born in the North, 

 but it is not known where. We first hear of Cedd in the year 

 653, when the son of Penda, King of Mercia, was converted to 

 Christianity, and married a Northumbrian princess. Cedd and 

 three other priests accompanied them into Mercia, which was 

 the Kingdom then including the central portions of England, and 

 up to that time was heathen. Their missionary work was very 

 successful, and large numbers were daily brought into tha Church 

 of Christ through the waters of baptism, or as it is expressed 

 " were daily washed in the foundation of faith." After a -short 

 period of missionary work in Mercia, Cedd was sent to preach the 

 Word in the kingdom of the East Saxons — the men of Essex — 

 whose King had become a Christian. A little later he was made 

 Bishop of the East Saxons, being consecrated by Finan, 

 Bishop of Lindisfarne, assisted by two other Bishops. On one 

 occasion when Bishop Cedd had come to pay a visit to his 

 brothers in the north, Oswy, King of Northumbria — which 

 included Yorkshire — asked him to build a Monastery in his 

 kingdom " to which the King himself might frequently resort, to 

 offer his prayers to the Lord, and hear the Word, and where he 

 might be buried when he died." He accordingly founded the 

 monastery of Lastingham. Here Cedd died and was buried after 

 he had appointed his brother Chad to succeed him in the Govern- 

 ment of the Monastery. Chad did not, however, long remain 

 Abbot of Lastingham, but was appointed Bishop of York. Just 

 at that time there was, as it were, two streams of Christianity 

 mingling in the North of England. There was the older stream 

 from Iona, and the newer one from Borne Wilfrid had been 

 appointed Bishop of York by the Borne party, and had gone to 

 Rome for consecration. When he returned, Chad who had been 

 appointed by the Iona party, was in possession of the see. 

 Wilfrid, like a good man and true, made no trouble about it, but 

 quietly retired to the monastery at Ripon. A little later that 

 grand man, Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, came 

 down and tried to make out that Chad had not been properly 

 consecrated. Chad said, " If you are persuaded that I have not 

 duly received episcopal ordination, I gladly resign the office, for 



