Epitaph for St Wilfrid from his Historia ecclesiastica V.19 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/BEDE.Wilfrid.Epit Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings Latin Poems Epitaph for St Wilfrid from his Historia ecclesiastica V.19
Uilfridus hic magnus requiescit corpore praesul, Hanc Domino qui aulam ductus pietatis amore Fecit, et eximio sacrauit nomine Petri, Cui claues caeli Christus dedit arbiter orbis, Atque auro ac Tyrio deuotus uestiit ostro. Quin etiam sublime crucis radiante metallo His posuit tropeum, necnon et quattuor auro Scribi euangelii praecepit in ordine libros, Ac thecam e rutilo his condignam condidit auro; Paschalis qui etiam sollemnia tempora cursus Catholici ad iustum correxit dogma canonis, Quem statuere patres, dubioque errore remoto Certa suae genti ostendit moderamina ritus; Inque locis istis monachorum examina crebra Colligit, ac monitis, cauit quae regula patrum, Sedulus instituit; multisque domique forisque Iactatus nimium per tempora longa periclis, Quindecies ternos postquam egit episcopus annos, Transiit, et gaudens caelestia regna petiuit. Dona, Iesu, ut grex pastoris calle sequatur.