Seeker

What music would you like to hear just before you die? I'd probably choose something from Mozart or Bach. What could be better? The singing of angels? That is what St Chad of Mercia is said to have heard before his death. On 2 March 672 A.D. Chad, the Abbott and Bishop of Lichfield died. This image of a stained glass window in Worcester Cathedral shows St Chad in the oratory of his house in Lichfield. It illustrates the story of Chad's death as told by the Venerable Bede (673 - 735) in his  ' Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum'.  A ccording to Bede many of the church in Lichfield had died of a plague. Chad's habit was to pray and read in his oratory with 7 or 8 of the monks, but one day shortly before his death he had just one with him whose name was Owine and who later told the story of Chad's death. The following is taken from a translation from The Clerk of Oxford's post . "The bishop was alone reading or praying in the oratory of that pla...