Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

CHAP. XXXII. Of one who was lately cured of a disease in his eye at the relics of St. Cuthbert.
NOR is that cure to be passed over in silence, which was performed by his relics three years
ago, and was told me lately by the brother himself, on whom it was wrought. It happened in the
monastery, which, being built near the river Dacore,has taken its name from the same, over which,
at that time, the religious Suidbertpresided as abbot. In that monastery was a youth whose eyelid
was disfigured by an unsightly tumour, which growing daily greater, threatened the loss of the eye.
The physicians endeavoured to mitigate it by applying ointments, but in vain. Some said it ought
to be cut off; others opposed this course, for fear of greater danger. The brother having long laboured
under this malady, when no human means availed to save his eye, but rather, it grew daily worse,
on a sudden, through the grace of the mercy of God, it came to pass that he was cured by the relics
of the holy father, Cuthbert. For when the brethren found his body uncorrupted, after having been
many years buried, they took some part of the hair, to give, as relics, to friends who asked for them,
or to show, in testimony of the miracle.
One of the priests of the monastery, named Thruidred, who is now abbot there, had a small part
of these relics by him at that time. One day he went into the church and opened the box of relics,
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to give some part of them to a friend who asked for it, and it happened that the youth who had the
diseased eye was then in the church. The priest, having given his friend as much as he thought fit,
gave the rest to the youth to put back into its place. But he having received the hairs of the holy
head, prompted by some salutary impulse, applied them to the diseased eyelid, and endeavoured
for some time, by the application of them, to abate and mitigate the tumour. Having done this, he
again laid the relics in the box, as he had been bidden, believing that his eye would soon be cured
by the hairs of the man of God, which had touched it; nor did his faith disappoint him. It was then,
as he is wont to relate, about the second hour of the day; but while he was occupied with other
thoughts and business of the day, on a sudden, about the sixth hour of the same, touching his eye,
he found it and the eyelid as sound as if there never had been any disfigurement or tumour on it.