CHAPTER III.

Character of Oswy--Death of Aidan--Wilfrid at Rome--At Oswald's Court--Finan and Colman--Independence of the Church attacked--Oswy's Conquests and Troubles--_Synodus Pharensis_--Cedda--Degeneration--The Disputation--Peter, the Gatekeeper--Triumph of Rome--Grief of the Britons--Popedom organized in England--Papal Exultation--Archbishop Theodore--Cedda re-ordained--Discord in the Church--Disgrace and Treachery of Wilfrid--His end--Scotland attacked--Adamnan--Iona resists--A King converted by Architects--The Monk Egbert at Iona--His History--Monkish Visions--Fall of Iona, page 43