Saint Cédric
Évêque des Saxons (+ 664)
Cedd ou Cedde, frère de
Saint Chad.
Il fut élevé à
Lindisfarne par saint Aidan. Il
évangélisa les Saxons de l'Angleterre orientale et devint leur évêque. Il
mourut de la peste à l'abbaye de Lastingham qu'il avait fondée dans le
Yorkshire.
- Crypte
saint Cedd, Lastingham (Yorkshire) - site en anglais
- Histoire
de saint Cedd? paroisse de Becontree (Dagenham) - site en
anglais
Des internautes nous
informent:
"Au sujet de Saint
Cedd, Wikipédia nous apprend que Saint Cedd fut un interprète consciencieux et
possédait des facilités pour l'apprentissage des langues. Ainsi, il pratiquait
les langues gaélique, anglaise, francique, le gallois et le latin.
Ce qui lui vaut
aujourd'hui le titre de Saint Patron des interprètes.
Il est aussi le Saint
Patron du Comté d'Essex en Angleterre, et du village de Lastingham (North
Yorkshire)."
"Il était fêté le 7
janvier jusqu'en 2005."
Il figure au 26 octobre
au martyrologe romain:
À Lastingham en
Angleterre, l’an 664, saint Cedde, ordonné par saint Finian, évêque des
Saxons de l’Est, il veilla à poser chez eux les fondements de l’Église.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/383/Saint-Cedric.html
Saint CEDD
26 octobre
Frère de St Chad, il
naquit en Northumbrie et devint moine à Lindisfarne. En 653, il fut envoyé avec
3 autres prêtres pour évangéliser les Angles du centre, quand leur roi Peada
fut baptisé par Saint Finan. Après avoir oeuvré dans ce champ quelque temps, il
fut appelé à la moisson dans un nouveau en Est Anglie (Essex), quand le roi
Sigebert fut convertit et baptisé par Finan. Avec un autre prêtre, ils
traversèrent les Midlands pour évaluer la situation. Ensuite Cedd revint à
Lindisfarne pour rendre compte à Finan, qui le consacra évêque des Est Saxons
en 654. Cedd repartit pour l'Essex, et passa le restant de sa vie avec les
Saxons, bâtissant des églises, fondant des monastères (Bradwell-on-the-Sea
(Ythancaestir, Othona), Tilbury, et Lastingham), ordonnant des prêtres et des
diacres pour continuer l'oeuvre d'évangélisation. Les 3 monastères qu'il bâtit
furent détruits par les Danois et jamais restaurés. Il partitipa au Synode de
Whitby en 664, où il accepta les observances Romaines, et mourut de la peste à Lastingham,
Yorkshire. A l'annonce de sa mort, 30 de ses frères parmi les Est Saxons
vinrent à Lastingham pour consacrer leur vie où leur saint père dans la foi
avait terminé la sienne. Mais tous moururent à leur tour de la peste, sauf
un garçon non encore baptisé, qui survécut et devint un prêtre et un
missionaire zèlé.
SOURCE : http://religion-orthodoxe.eu/article-saint-cedd-ou-cedric-664-87274137.html
Carvings
of St Alban and St Cedd on reredos in All Saints' Great Braxted
Statues
de saint Alban (à gauche) et saint Cedd dans
l'église de Great Braxted.
Also
known as
Cedda
Cedde
Ceddus
Ceddi
Ceadwalla
7 January on
some calendars
Profile
Brother of Saint Chad and Saint Cynibild; his
brother Caelin was also a priest. Benedictine monk at Lindisfarne, England.
Spiritual student of Saint Aidan
of Lindesfarne. Priest. Missionary to
the Midlands of England in 653, sent
by King Oswiu
of Northumbria with
three other priests at
the request of convert King Peada
of the Middle Angles. Worked with Saint Diuma. Missionary in
Essex by request of converted King Sigebert
of the East Angles. Bishop of
the East Saxons, consecrated by Saint Finan of Iona.
Founded churches and monasteries at
Bradwell-on-the-Sea, Lastingham, and Tilbury, and served as abbot of the house
in Lastingham. Attended the Synod of Whitby in 664 where
he acted as an interpreter, and at which he accepted Roman Easter observance.
In his old age he retired to the monastery at Lastingham,
Yorkshire.
Born
26 October 664 at Lastingham,
Yorkshire, England of plague
buried at
Lastingham
relics later
relocated next to the altar in the new
church at Lastingham
in England
bishop with chalice and abbot‘s staff
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MLA
Citation
“Saint Cedd“. CatholicSaints.Info.
28 February 2024. Web. 24 October 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-cedd/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-cedd/
St. Cedd
Feastday: October 26
Patron: of Essex; Lastingham; interpreters
Birth: 620
Death: 664
Cedd A disciple of St. Aidan of
Lindisfarne, St. Cedd was
the brother of St. Chad, Cynebill, and Cćlin, all of whom became monks. Cedd,
whom Peada of Mercia invited to preach among the Middle Angles, was ordained in
653. A year later, the priest was
sent as a missionary to Essex, when the East Anglian king Sigbert converted to
Christianity. Finan of Lindisfarne made Cedd bishop because
of his success. Cedd founded several monasteries, including Tilbury and
Lastingham. In 664, Cedd was an interpreter at the Synod of
Whitby and accepted Oswiu's adoption of
Roman usage. Cedd died that year at Lastingham of the plague.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=906
(Saint) Bishop (June 7)
(7th century) The brother of Saint Chad, and himself Bishop of London. After a
sojourn in the monastery of Lindisfarne and much mission work in the North of
England, Oswy, King of Northumbria, sent him to the East Saxons at the petition
of Sigebert, their king, and he may rightly be styled the Apostle of the
English metropolis. Like other holy prelates of his time, Saint Cedd retired in
his old age to a monastery he had founded at Lestingay in Yorkshire, where he
died A.D. 664. He had a special Office in the old English Breviaries, usually
on March 2.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Cedd”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
1 October 2012. Web. 24 October 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-cedd/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-cedd/
Cedd, OSB B (AC)
Born in Northumbria,
England; died October 26, 664; feast day formerly celebrated on January 7. Cedd
was raised together with his brother Saint Chad. He became a monk at
Lindisfarne and in 653 was sent with three other priests to evangelize the
Middle Angles when their King Peada was baptized by Saint Finan of Lindisfarne
in 653 at the court of his father-in-law, Oswy of Northumbria.
After working in that
field for a time he was called to harvest a new one in East Anglia (Essex),
when King Sigebert was converted and baptized by Finan. He and another priest
travelled throughout the midlands to evaluate the situation. Then Cedd returned
to Lindisfarne to confer with Finan, who consecrated him bishop of the East
Saxons in 654. Cedd returned to Essex and spent the rest of his life with the
Saxons--building churches, founding monasteries (at Bradwell-on-the-Sea
(Ythancaestir, Othona), Tilbury, and Lastingham), and ordaining priests and
deacons to continue the work of evangelization.
Lastingham, originally
called Laestingaeu, was built in 658 on a tract of inaccessible land in
Yorkshire donated by King Ethelwald of Deira. Here Cedd spent 40 days in prayer
and fasting to consecrate the place to God according to the custom of
Lindisfarne, derived from Saint Columba. All three of the monasteries he built
were destroyed by the Danes and never restored.
He attended the Synod of
Whitby in 664, where he accepted the Roman observances, and died of the plague
at Lastingham, Yorkshire. At the news of his death, 30 of his brethren among
the East Saxons came to Lastingham to consecrate their lives where their holy
father in faith had ended his. But they, too, were all killed by the same
plague, except one unbaptized boy, who lived to become a priest and zealous
missionary (Delaney, Walsh).
Saint Cedd is depicted in
art as a bishop with a chalice and an abbatial staff. Sometimes he is shown
with his brother Saint Chad of Lichfield, other times with Saint Diuma, bishop
of the Middle English. He is venerated at Charlbury, Oxon, England
(Roeder).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/1026.shtml
St. Cedd
(Or Cedda).
Bishop of
the East Saxons, the brother of St.
Ceadda; died 26 Oct. 664. There were two other brothers also priests, Cynibill and Caelin,
all born of an Angle family settled
in Northumbria. With his younger brother Ceadda, he was brought up
at Lindisfarne under St.
Aidan. In 653 he was one of four priests sent
by Oswiu, King of Northumbria, to evangelize the Middle Angles at the
request of their ealdorman, Peada. Shortly after, however, he was recalled
and sent on the same missionary errand to Essex to help Sigeberht, King of
the East Saxons, to convert his
people to Christ.
Here he was consecrated bishop and
was very active in founding churches, and established monasteries at Tilbury and
Ithancester. Occasionally he revisited his native Northumbria, and there, at
the request of Aethelwald, founded the monastery of Laestingaeu,
now Lastingham, in Yorkshire. Of this house he became the first abbot,
notwithstanding his episcopal responsibilities. At the Synod
of Whitby, like St.
Cuthbert, he, though Celtic in his
upbringing, adopted the Roman Easter.
Immediately after the synod he
paid a visit to Laestingaeu, where he fell a victim to the prevalent
plague. Florence
of Worcester and William
of Malmesbury in later times counted him as the second Bishop of London,
but St.
Bede, almost a contemporary, never gives him that title. His festival was
kept on 7 January.
Burton,
Edwin. "St. Cedd." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.
3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 26 Oct.
2016 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03475a.htm>.
Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Christine J. Murray.
Ecclesiastical
approbation. Nihil Obstat. November 1, 1908. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2020 by Kevin
Knight. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03475a.htm
Saint Cedd, Bishop of London
He was brother to Saint Chad, bishop of Litchfield, and to Saint Celin, and
Cimbert, apostolic priests, who all laboured zealously in the conversion of the
English Saxons, their countrymen. Saint Cedd long served God in the monastery
of Lindisfarne, founded by Saint Aidan, and for his great sanctity was promoted
to the priesthood. Peada, the son of Penda, king of Mercia, was appointed by
his father king of the midland English; by which name Bede distinguishes the
inhabitants of Leicestershire, and part of Lincolnshire and Derbyshire, from
the rest of the Mercians. The young king, with a great number of noblemen,
servants, and soldiers, went to Atwall, or Walton, the seat of Oswy, king of
the Northumbers, and was there baptized with all his attendants, by Finan,
bishop of Lindisfarne. Four priests, Saint Cedd, Adda, Betta, and Diuma, the
last a Scot, the rest English, were sent to preach the gospel to his people—the
midland English; among whom great multitudes received the word of life with
joy. King Penda himself obstructed not these missionaries in preaching the
faith in other parts of Mercia, but hated and despised such as embraced the
gospel, yet lived not up to it, saying: “Such wretches deserved the utmost
contempt, who would not obey the God in whom they believed.” Saint Cedd, after
labouring there for some time with great success, was called from this mission
to a new harvest. Sigbercht, or Sigebert, king of the East-Saxons, paying a
visit to Oswy, in Northumberland, was persuaded by that prince to forsake his
idols, and was baptized by bishop Finan. When he was returned to his own
kingdom, he entreated king Oswy to send him some teachers, who might instruct
his people in the faith of Christ. Oswy called Saint Cedd out of the province
of the midland English, and sent him with another priest to the nation of the
East-Saxons. When they had travelled over that whole province, and gathered
numerous churches to our Lord, Saint Cedd returned to Lindisfarne, to confer
with bishop Finan about certain matters of importance. That prelate ordained
him bishop of the East-Saxons, having called two other bishops to assist at his
consecration. Saint Cedd going back to his province, pursued the work he had
begun, built churches, and ordained priests and deacons. Two monasteries were
erected by him in those parts, which seem afterwards to have been destroyed by
the Danes and never restored. The first he founded near a city, called by the
English Saxons, Ythancester, formerly Othona, seated upon the bank of the river
Pante, (now Froshwell,) which town was afterwards swallowed up by the gradual
encroaching of the sea. Saint Cedd’s other monastery was built at another city
called Tillaburg, now Tilbury, near the river Thames, and here Camden supposes
the saint chiefly to have resided, as the first English bishops often chose to
live in monasteries. But others generally imagine, that London, then the seat
of the king, was the ordinary place of his residence, as it was of the ancient
bishops of that province, and of all his successors. In a journey which Saint
Cedd made to his own country, Edilwald, the son of Oswald, who reigned among
the Deiri, in Yorkshire, finding him to be a wise and holy man, desired him to
accept of some possessions of land to build a monastery, to which the king
might resort to offer his prayers with those who should attend the divine
service without intermission, and where he might be buried when he died. The
king had before with him a brother of our saint, called Celin, a priest of
great piety, who administered the divine word, and the sacrament, to him and
his family. Saint Cedd pitched upon a place amidst craggy and remote mountains,
which seemed fitter to be a retreat for robbers, or a lurking place for wild
beasts, than an habitation for men. Here he resolved first to spend forty days
in fasting and prayer, to consecrate the place to God. For this purpose he
retired thither in the beginning of Lent. He ate only in the evening, except on
Sundays, and his meal consisted of an egg, and a little milk mingled with
water, with a small portion of bread, according to the custom of Lindisfarne,
derived from that of Saint Columba, by which it appears that, for want of
legumes so early in the year, milk and eggs were allowed in that northern
climate, which the canons forbade in Lent. Ten days before the end of Lent, the
bishop was called to the king for certain pressing affairs, so that he was
obliged to commission his priest, Cynibil, who was his brother, to complete it.
This monastery being founded in 658, was called Lestingay. Saint Cedd placed in
it monks, with a superior from Lindisfarne; but continued to superintend the
same, and afterwards made several visits thither from London. Our saint
excommunicated a certain nobleman among the East-Saxons, for an incestuous
marriage; forbidding any Christian to enter his house, or eat with him.
Notwithstanding this prohibition, the king went to a banquet at his house. Upon
his return, the holy bishop met him, whom as soon as the king saw, he began to
tremble, and righting from his horse, prostrated himself at his feet, begging
pardon for his offence. The bishop touched him with a rod which he held in his
hand, and said, “O king, because thou wouldst not refrain from the house of
that wicked excommunicated person, thou thyself shalt die in that very house.”
Accordingly, some time after, the king was basely murdered in 661, by this
nobleman and another, both his own kinsmen, who alleged no other reason for
their crime, than that he was too easy in forgiving his enemies. This king was
succeeded by Suidhelm, the son of Sexbald, whom Saint Cedd regenerated to
Christ by baptism. In 664, St Cedd was present at the conference, or synod, of
Streneshalch, in which he forsook the Scottish custom, and agreed to receive
the canonical observance of the time of Easter. Soon after, a great pestilence
breaking out in England, Saint Cedd died of it, in his beloved monastery of
Lestingay, in the mountainous part of Yorkshire, since destroyed by the Danes,
so that its exact situation is not known. He was first buried in the open
cemetery; but, not long after, a church of stone being built in the same
monastery, under the invocation of the Blessed Virgin, the Mother of our Lord,
his body was removed and laid at the right hand of the altar. Thirty of the
saint’s religious brethren in Essex, upon the news of his death, came to
Lestingay, in the resolution to live and die where their holy father had ended
his life. They were willingly received by their brethren; but were all carried
off by the same pestilence, except a little boy; who was afterwards found not
to have been then baptized, and being in process of time advanced to the
priesthood, lived to gain many souls to God. Saint Cedd died on the 26th of
October; but is commemorated in the English Martyrology on the 7th of January.
MLA
Citation
Father Alban Butler.
“Saint Cedd, Bishop of London”. Lives of the
Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints, 1866. CatholicSaints.Info.
6 January 2013. Web. 26 October 2016. <
http://catholicsaints.info/butlers-lives-of-the-saints-saint-cedd-bishop-of-london/>
SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/butlers-lives-of-the-saints-saint-cedd-bishop-of-london/
ST. CEDD—A.D. 664
Feast: October 26
Cedd belonged to a family
of brothers, and all six of them were chosen by King Oswald of Northumbria to
be trained by St. Aidan to be monks and missionaries. This was in 635, when
Aidan came from the monastery of Iona in Scotland to become bishop of King
Oswald's kingdom. One of St. Cedd's brothers was St. Chad, who was the first
bishop of York and then bishop of Lichfield.
In 653, Peada, king of
the Middle Angles, asked Aidan's successor at Lindisfarne for a bishop for his
diocese, and St. Finan chose four monks from Lindisfarne to evangelize Peada's
people. Later, the king of the East Saxons, whose chief city was London, also
asked for a bishop, and Finan called Cedd to Lindisfarne and consecrated him
bishop of London.
Cedd founded three
monasteries of his own, the best known being Lastingham, where he died of the
plague in 664. St. Bede has a beautiful story of Cedd's founding of Lastingham:
Cedd spent forty days in prayer and fasting in a remote spot given to him by
King Ethelwald.
In 664, Cedd was present
at the Synod of Whitby and was a member of the Irish party, those wishing to
retain the Irish date for Easter. But when the synod decided in favor of the
Roman date, Cedd accepted the decision, not wanting to cause any further
disunity in the English churches.
After the Synod of
Whitby, a plague struck England, and Cedd was among those who died from the
plague. At the news of his death, thirty monks came from London to spend their
lives where their founder had died. But they, too, caught the plague and were
buried near the little chapel that had been erected in Cedd's memory.
Cedd was the second
bishop of the city of London; the first was Mellitus, who came with St.
Augustine and later became archbishop of Canterbury. Mellitus was driven from
the see by the king of the East Saxons in 616, and London was without a bishop
until Cedd's arrival about 654.
Thought for the Day: St.
Cedd was trained by a saint and he himself trained others to holiness. A good
teacher teaches mostly by what he is; and, if he is a good teacher, the things
that are important to him become important to those he teaches. Good teachers
fashion the souls of others by contact with their own soul.
From 'The Catholic One
Year Bible': . . . I have been sent to bring faith to those God has chosen and
to teach them to know God's truth—the kind of truth that changes lives—so that
they can have eternal life, which God promised them before the world
began....—Titus 1 :1-2
(Taken "The One Year Book of Saints" by Rev. Clifford Stevens, Our
Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., Huntington, IN
46750.)
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St. Cedd
(AD 620-AD 664)
Bishop of Essex
Abbot of Lastingham
Born: c. AD 620 in Northumberland
Died: 26th October AD 664 at Lastingham, Yorkshire North Riding
St. Cedd was the eldest
of four holy brothers, born into a noble Northumbrian family at the beginning
of the 7th century. With his siblings, Cynebil, Caelin & (St.) Chad, he
entered the school at Lindisfarne Priory at an early age and learnt the ways of
the Irish monks under Bishop Aidan. They were eventually sent to Ireland for
further study and all four subsequently became priests.
In AD 653, the mighty
armies of King Penda of Mercia expanded their monarch's influence to the
control of Middle Anglia (Leicestershire and parts of Lincoln and Derby), where
his son Peada was appointed King. Soon afterward, the young king visited his
neighbour, King Oswiu of Northumbria, at Walton (or Atwell or Wattbottle) and,
as his new kingdom had already been considerably influenced by East Anglian
Christianity, Peada agreed to be baptised in return for the hand of Oswiu's
daughter, Alchflaed. Bishop Finan of Lindisfarne therefore welcomed the King
and a number of his nobles into the Christian faith and Oswiu provided him with
four priests to instruct his people further. One of these was St. Cedd.
Within a year, Cedd
returned home, having helped to convert much of Middle Anglia to Christianity.
He travelled to Lindisfarne to confer with Bishop Finan, who promptly sent this
impress young missionary out once more to evangelise the people of Essex, who
were sorely in need of some spiritual guidance. King Oswiu, having imposed his
overlordship there, had persuaded King Sigeberht Sanctus to adopt Christianity,
in a general mobilization against Penda of Mercia. Cedd thus turned south again
to spread the word of God amongst the East Saxons. He baptised many of the
locals and built several churches - possibly Prittlewell and West Mersea
amongst them - and is particularly noted for the foundation of monasteries at
Ythanchester (Bradwell-on-Sea) and Tilaburg (East Tilbury).
The following year, Cedd
made a brief visit to Northumbria once more, where Bishop Finan had no
hesitation in ordaining him as Bishop of Essex. Back in his southern province,
Cedd pursued the work he had previously begun with more ample authority. He
re-instated St. Paul's in London as the main seat of his diocese. He ordained
priests and deacons to assist him in his work and gathered together a large
flock of servants of Christ in his two monastic foundations.
Bishop Cedd always
remained fond of his homeland, however, and was wont to make regular visits
there. On one such occasion in AD 658, Cedd was approached by King Aethelwald
of Deira who had been instructed in Christianity and administered the
Sacraments by the Bishop's brother, Caelin. Finding Cedd to be a good and wise
man, he pressed upon him to accept a parcel of land at Laestingaeu (Lastingham in
Yorkshire) on which to build a Royal monastery and prospective mausoleum. Cedd
eventually agreed, but would not lay the foundation stones until the place had
first been cleansed through prayer and fasting. This, he undertook himself
throughout lent, until his brother, Cynebil, took over, when the Bishop was
called to the Royal Court. Cedd was the first Abbot of Lastingham and remained
so while still administering to his flock in Essex.
Christianity had not
quite been universally accepted in Cedd's southern province and, by AD 660,
there was considerable discontent with the rule of King Sigeberht of Essex. He
was murdered by his brothers, Swithelm and Swithfrith, and the former took the
throne as a pagan King. St. Cedd was forced to flee north into East Anglia,
where he settled at the Court of King Aethelwald at Rendlesham (Suffolk). The
East Anglians appear to have held some sort of overlordship in Essex at this
time and, within about two years, Aethelwald had persuaded Swithelm that it
would be in his interest to become Christian. Cedd baptised him at Rendlesham,
with Aethelwald as his godfather, and the two returned to Essex.
It was around this time
that, owing to the influence of St. Wilfrid who had been established at Ripon
by King Alchfrith of Deira, that a great divide was forming in the Northumbrian
Church. All the missionaries of the north had been brought up in Iona or
Lindisfarne, and followed the Celtic ritual. Wilfrid, ordained by a French
bishop, introduced Roman ways. The split even extended to the Royal household
where, each year, Oswiu celebrated the Celtic Easter feast and his Queen, the
Roman. To settle this difference, and prevent a rupture, the King convened a
religious synod at Whitby in AD 664. St. Cedd attended the synod - probably with
his brother, Chad - to act as interpreter and to speak on behalf of his fellow
Celtic ecclesiastics, Bishop Colman of Lindisfarne and Abbess
Hilda of Whitby. On the opposing side were Abbot Wilfrid of Ripon, former
Bishop Agilbert of Wessex, Romanus, the Queen's chaplain, and James the Deacon
who had remained in Swaledale after St. Paulinus had fled Yorkshire. After much
debate, it was decided that the Roman usages should be adopted and Cedd, along
with many others, reluctantly renounced the customs of Lindisfarne and returned
to his diocese to spread the new Roman ways amongst the people of Essex.
The same year, Cedd
visited his Abbey at Lastingham while a great plague was, unfortunately, raging
through the area. Both he and his brother, Cynebil, fell sick and, after
placing Lastingham in the charge of their youngest brother, Chad, they died.
Cedd was first buried in the open air and his funeral was attended by some
thirty monks from Bradwell who, sadly, also contracted the plague and died.
Eventually, a little stone church was built at the Lastingham, in honour the
Virgin Mary, and Cedd's body was interred there, to the right of the altar. The
latter remains intact in the Norman crypt that was later built on the site,
though St. Cedd's bones were removed around the same time to the cathedral
founded by his brother, Chad, at Lichfield.
SOURCE : https://web.archive.org/web/20161225214805/http://www.britannia.com/bios/saints/cedd.html
San Cedda Vescovo
† Lastingham,
Inghilterra, 26 ottobre 664
San Cedda, fratello di
San Chad, fu per un lungo periodo monaco a Lindisfarne in Inghilterra. Nel 653,
con la conversione del re Peada, Cedda fu scelto per evangelizzare gli Angli
centrali. Quando alcuni anni dopo anche san Sigeberto II, re dei sassoni orientali,
abbracciò il cristianesimo, Cedda fu inviato con un altro compagno nell'odierna
contea di Wessex per predicare e battezzare la popolazione locale. Esplorato
l'intero territorio oggetto dell'opera missionaria, Cedda volle consultarsi con
il suo superiore a Lindisfarne e questi fu così entusiasta che decise di
consacrarlo primo vescovo della regione. Più volte Cedda fece ritorno a
Lindisfarne e qui il re Etelwald, a conoscenza della sua fama di santità, gli
donò un terreno per fondare un monastero nella selva dello Yorkshire. Il santo
allora nel 658 vi fondò il monastero di Lastingham, poi anch'esso distrutto
dagli invasori. Nel 664 Cedd partecipò al sinodo di Whitby, facendosi mediatore
tra le due opposte fazioni, celta e romana, nella disputa sulla data della
Pasqua. Ritornato poi a Lastingham, morì il 26 ottobre 644 a causa di
un'epidemia. (Avvenire)
Martirologio
Romano: A Lastingham nella Northumbria in Inghilterra, san Cedda, che,
fratello di san Ceadda, fu ordinato da san Finnano vescovo dei Sassoni
orientali e si adoperò per gettare tra costoro le fondamenta della Chiesa.
San Cedd, fratello di San
Chad, fu per un lungo periodo monaco a Lindisfarne in Inghilterra. Nel 653, con
la conversione del re Peada, Cedd fu scelto quale uno dei quattro evangelizzatori
degli angli centrali. Quando alcuni anni dopo anche San Sigeberto II, re dei
sassoni orientali, abbracciò il cristianesimo, Cedd fu inviato con un altro
compagno nell’odierna contea di Wessex per predicare e battezzare la
popolazione locale. Esplorato l’intero territorio oggetto dell’opera
missionaria, Cedd volle consultarsi con il suo superiore a Lindisfarne e questi
fu così entusiasta che decise di consacrarlo primo vescovo della regione.
Ritornato nell’Essex,
Cedd poté così ordinare nuovi sacerdoti e diaconi che lo potesero affiancare
nella predicazione e nall’amministrazione del battesimo. Promosse
l’edificazione di diverse chiese, nonché di due monasteri poi andati distrutti:
del primo sito nell’odierno Bradwell-on-Sea sopravvive ancora la chiesa, mentre
il secondo si trovava presso Tilbury sulle rive del Tamigi.San Beda il
Venerabile, grande storico della Chiesa inglese, narra come Cedd fondò “una
comunità di servi di Cristo, insegnò a osservare la disciplina di una regola,
nei limiti in cui quelli potevano comprenderla, dato che erano ancora piuttosto
rozzi”. Inoltre Beda riferì che Cedd scomunicò un nobile locale in seguito ad
un matrimonio illecito, vietando a tutti l’ingresso nella sua abitazione.
Quando il re Sigeberto disobedì al divieto, Cedd lo ammonì fermamente: “Poiché
non ti sei astenuto dall’entrare nella casa di un uomo perduto e dannato,
questa stessa casa ha segnato la tua morte”. Infatti poco tempo dopo il sovrano
fu assassinato da un parente.
Più volte Cedd fece
ritorno a Lindisfarne e qui il re Etelwald, a conoscenza della sua fama di
santità, gli donò un terreno per fondare un monastero nella selva dello
Yorkshire. Il santo consacrò allora il luogo digiunandovi per quaranta giorni e
nel 658 vi fondò il monastero di Lastingham, poi anch’esso distrutto dagli
invasori. Nel 664 Cedd partecipò al sinodo di Whitby, facendosi mediatore tra
le due opposte fazioni, celta e romana, nella disputa sulla data della Pasqua.
Egli stesso di tradizione celtica, optò comunque per la datazione latina della
principale festa cristiana, contribuendo così all’uniformità in materia.
Ritornato poi a
Lastingham, morì il 26 ottobre 644 a causa di un’epidemia. La leggenda vuole
che trenta suoi fratelli, appresa la notizia della morte, si misero in viaggio
verso nord “desiderosi di vivere vicino al corpo del loro padre, se così a Dio
fosse piaciuto, o, se fossero morti, di essere seppelliti colà”. Contrassero
infatti la medesima malattia e furono sepolti vicini al santo. Quest’ultimo,
sepolto inizialmente nelle segrete del monastero, fu poi traslato nel sacrario
di una chiesa dedicata alla Vergine Maria. Nell’XI secolo le sue reliquie erano
oggetto di venerazione presso Lichfield con quelle di suo fratello.
Autore: Fabio
Arduino
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/93119
Cedd
auch: Cedda
Gedenktag katholisch: 26. Oktober
nicht gebotener Gedenktag in England
Name bedeutet: ?
Bischof der Ost-Angelsachsen, Klostergründer
† 26. Oktober 664
Cedd stammte aus Northumbrien;
er wurde zusammen mit seinem jüngeren Bruder Chad in Lindisfarne unter Aidan ausgebildet.
653 wurde er mit den Priestern Adda und
Betti sowie dem Bischof Diuma
von Mercien, von Oswiu, dem
König von Northumbrien, zur Mission nach Mercien gesandt,
um das Land zu christianisieren, nachdem Oswius Tochter Alhflaed den dortigen
Thronfolger geheiratet hatte. Später ging Cedd nach Essex zu
den Ost-Angelsachsen. Hier wurde er zum Bischof geweiht, er gründete Kirchen
und Klöster. Zu Besuch in seiner Heimat gründete er das Kloster Lastingham in
der Grafschaft York und wurde dessen Abt. Auf der Synode von Whitby übernahm
er den römischen Osterfesttermin,
obwohl er selbst ja Kelte war.
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† 664 Cedd
van Londen
Cedd (ook Cedda, Cedde,
of Ceddus) van Londen osb, Engeland; bisschop; † 664.
Feest 7 januari &
26 oktober.
Cedd leefde in de eerste helft van de 7e eeuw en maakte deel uit van een heilige generatie in zijn familie. Alle drie zijn broers zijn heilig geworden: Chad, bisschop van York († 673; feest 2 maart), Caelin (of Celinus), een priester, en Cynebill (of Cimbertus; † 7e eeuw; feest 2 maart). Deze laatste zou zich toeleggen op het bekeringswerk onder de Angelsaksen. Dit volk had zojuist heel Groot-Brittannië veroverd en de inheemse bevolking aan zich onderworpen.
Met zijn broers was Cedd opgevoed in Lindisfarne, het beroemde kloostereiland
ter hoogte van de grens tussen Schotland en Engeland. Het was indertijd
gesticht door Ierse monniken. Hij heeft er in zijn tijd twee grote abten
meegemaakt: Aidan († 651; feest 31 augustus) en Finan († 661; feest 17
februari). De jongens voelden zich alle drie aangetrokken tot het monniksideaal
en traden uiteindelijk toe tot de kloostergemeenschap.
In 653 ging Peada, de zoon van koning Penda van Mercia, over tot het christendom. Hij nodigde Cedd uit om er met nog drie andere priesters zijn volk het christendom bij te brengen. Die andere drie heetten Adda, Betta en Diuma; Cedd en de eerste twee waren Angelen van afkomst, Diuma was een Schot. Penda verzette zich er niet tegen; het enige waar hij een gruwelijke hekel aan had - zo liet hij weten - was, als mensen zeiden in God te geloven, maar in hun doen en laten zich niets aan Hem gelegen lieten liggen! Niet lang daarna werd ook koning Sigebert van Oost-Saksen (= Essex) christen. Op zijn beurt vroeg hij Cedd om in zijn koninkrijk te komen preken.
Dat bekeringswerk droeg rijke vrucht. Cedd had zelfs zoveel succes dat zijn
abt, Finan van Lindisfarne, hem tot bisschop wijdde. Vervolgens zond hij hem
terug naar de streken van de Oost-Saksers om er zijn werk voort te zetten. Hij
probeerde de bevolking te overtuigen van de christelijke beginselen.
Nu leefde er in die
streek een hooggeplaatst man. De bisschop had hem erop gewezen dat zijn
huwelijk onwettig was. Maar de man had zijn schouders opgehaald. En de bisschop
was niet in staat geweest om hem op het rechte pad te brengen. Daarop had Cedd
over die man de banvloek uitgesproken. Niemand mocht nog zijn huis binnen gaan,
laat staan met hem samen de maaltijd gebruiken. Maar de koning had zich daar
niets van aangetrokken. Toen Sigebert eens het huis van die man uitkwam, liep
hij juist de bisschop tegen het lijf. Hij wist niet hoe gauw hij van zijn paard
moest springen, hij bibberde over zijn hele lijf en kroop in het stof om
vergiffenis te vragen. Maar Cedd was woedend. Met zijn staf prikte hij naar de
koning op de grond en wees naar het huis met de woorden: "Sigebert, ik
geef je de verzekering: nu je dat huis van die goddeloze man niet hebt willen
mijden, zal datzelfde huis nog eens je ondergang worden." Jaren later
zouden die profetische woorden uitkomen. Toen koning Sigebert in het jaar 661
bij een moordaanslag om het leven was gebracht, bleek de man van dat foute
huwelijk één van de twee daders te zijn; die ander was zijn broer; de twee
waren in de verte zelfs nog familie van de koning. Op de vraag wat hen tot die
misdaad had gebracht, konden ze geen behoorlijk antwoord geven. Het enige was
dat ze vonden dat de koning veel te vergevingsgezind en zachtmoedig was jegens
zijn vijanden. Deze geschiedenis staat te lezen bij Beda († 735; feest 25 mei),
een monnik uit het Engelse klooster Yarrow; hij schreef in de 8e eeuw een
geschiedenis over volk en kerk van Engeland. Aan het einde van dit relaas merkt
Beda op, dat koning Sigebert dus eigenlijk het slachtoffer is geworden van zijn
christelijke houding. De monnik is er dan ook haast van overtuigd dat zijn
fouten hem in de hemel wel vergeven zouden zijn...
In de omgeving van Londen
stichtte Cedd verschillende kloosters, zoals Tilbury en Lestingham (ook
Lestingay geheten). Want al was hij bisschop, in zijn hart bleef hij de monnik
die hij van jongs af was geweest. Dat bleek ook uit zijn gestrenge levenswijze.
Om de plek waar het klooster zou komen te staan, aan God toe te wijden, vastte
hij er veertig dagen aan één stuk. Hij at maar één keer per dag en dat bestond
dan uit een homp brood en een slok water. Die plek zelf was trouwens eerder
geschikt als schuilplaats voor dievenbendes of wilde beesten dan om er als
normaal mens te wonen.
Hij maakte in 664 de
beroemde synode van Whitby mee. Daar werd besloten dat de kerk van
Groot-Brittannië zich zou aansluiten bij de traditie van Rome: dit had vooral
betrekking op het bepalen van de Paasdatum en op de levenswijze van de
monniken. Het schijnt dat Cedd van harte heeft ingestemd met dit besluit,
waaraan twee eeuwen strijd vooraf waren gegaan. Nog in datzelfde jaar stierf
hij op 26 oktober aan de gele pest en werd begraven in 'zijn' klooster te
Lestingham. Waarom zijn feest ook wordt gevierd op 7 januari, is niet
duidelijk. Waarschijnlijk is het de dag waarop zijn relieken eens plechtig naar
een andere kerk zijn overgebracht.
[000»bk:Beda:Kerkgeschiedenis000»jrb; 014; 101; 101a; 102»Cedde; 104»Cedde;
105; 106»Cedda/Ceddus; 111a; 113; 115; 138p:375.385.387; 142jr0664; 149/1:36.37;
154; 316; Beda:III,22; Butler; Dries van den Akker s.j./2007.12.19]
© A. van den Akker
s.j. / A.W. Gerritsen
SOURCE : https://heiligen-3s.nl/heiligen/01/07/01-07-0664-cedd.php
