HKB
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Often appears with: religious habits for rulers · monastic burial sites · miracles and divine intervention · miracle with burial coffin · funeral rites and burial · deathbed visions · conversion and faith · almsgiving
Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · the fall of the great (1) · reverence (1)
Sebbi, king of the East Saxons, takes monastic habit from Bishop Waldhere, gives money to the poor, foresees his death by vision, experiences a coffin-length miracle, and is buried in the church taught by “the teacher of the Gentiles.”
considerable sum of money, to be given to the poor, reserving nothing to himself, but rather coveting to remain poor in spirit for the sake of the kingdom of Heaven. When the aforesaid sickness increased, and he perceived the day of his death to be drawing near, being a man of a royal disposition, he began to apprehend lest, when in great pain, at the approach of death, he might commit anything unworthy of his chara…