According to Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the term is interchangeable with the Gewisse, meaning the descendants of Gewis.

According to a later continuation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica ( written anonymously after Bede's death ) the king was " treacherously murdered at night by his own bodyguards ", though the reason why is unrecorded.

According to a later continuation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, he was " treacherously murdered at night by his own bodyguards ", though the reason why is unrecorded.

According to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, a history of the English church, there were seven early Anglo-Saxon rulers who held imperium, or overlordship, over the other kingdoms.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest recorded use of the title " pope " in English is in an Old English translation ( c. 950 ) of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People:

According to Bede's account in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( Book I, chapter 34 ), Æthelfrith had won many victories against the Britons and was expanding his power and territory, and this concerned Áedán, who led " an immense and mighty army " against Æthelfrith.

According to Bede's explanation, this happened because Mellitus refused the brothers ' request for a taste of the sacramental bread.

According to Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Oisc's given name was Orric.

According to Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, I. vii and xviii, Alban was a pagan living at Verulamium ( now St Albans ), who converted to Christianity, and was executed by decapitation on a hill above the Roman settlement of Verulamium.

According to adventurer André Malraux, in his La Condition Humaine ( 1933 ), " If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity ?".

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to those beliefs events in our current life are consequences of actions taken in previous lives, or Karma.

According to Price after death the self will find itself in a dream world of memories and mental images from their life.

* Christian perfection – According to Wesley's teaching, Christians could attain a state of practical perfection, meaning a lack of all voluntary sin by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, in this life.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to the anthropologist Tim Ingold, animism shares similarities to totemism but differs in its focus on individual spirit beings which help to perpetuate life, whereas totemism more typically holds that there is a primary source, such as the land itself or the ancestors, who provide the basis to life.

According to Tylor, animism often includes " an idea of pervading life and will in nature "; i. e., a belief that natural objects other than humans have souls.

According to Suetonius, Domitius was a wealthy man with a despicable and dishonest character, who, according to Suetonius, was “ A man who was in every aspect of his life detestable ", and served as consul in 32.

According to some scholars Ali ibn Yusuf was a new generation of leadership that had forgot the desert life for the comforts of the city.

According to Wirt, Henry ended his speech with words that have since become immortalized: " Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research ( CEPR ), the period from 1980 – 2005 has seen diminished progress in terms of economic growth, life expectancy, infant and child mortality, and to a lesser extent education.

" According to Anthroposophy, moral development reveals the extent to which one has achieved control over one's inner life and can exercise it in harmony with the spiritual life of other people ; it shows the real progress in spiritual development, the fruits of which are given in spiritual perception.

According to some interpretations, the concept of ahimsa as expounded in the scriptures and law books is not meant to imply pacifism ; war is seen as a normal part of life and the natural duty of the warriors.

According to Jewish tradition the author of Kings was Jeremiah, whose life overlapped the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.

According to Ivinskaya, Pasternak continued to receive such letters for the remainder of his life.

According to some versions of functionalism, even non-human systems, such as other animal species, alien life forms, or advanced computers can, in principle, have mental states.

According to this theory, depressed people acquire a negative schema of the world in childhood and adolescence as an effect of stressful life events, and the negative schema is activated later in life when the person encounters similar situations.

According to Lycophron's Alexandra ( 808 ) and John Tzetzes ' scholia on the poem ( 795-808 ), however, Circe used magical herbs to bring Odysseus back to life after he had been killed by Telegonus.

" According to Vedic principles, the first part of life should be utilized in brahmacarya for the development of character and spiritual qualities.

According to biographer Ray Spangenburg, these early years as Sagan tried to understand the mysteries of the planets, became a " driving force in his life, a continual spark to his intellect, and a quest that would never be forgotten.

According to medical intuitive and author, Caroline Myss, who described chakras in her work Anatomy of the Spirit ( 1996 ), " Every thought and experience you've ever had in your life gets filtered through these chakra databases.

According to certain authorities, twelve teeth of the saint were taken from the tomb in the fifteenth century and kept in the treasury, but these have now disappeared ( Stokes, Apennines, p. 183 ).

According to Alcuin's Life of St. Willebrord, the saint visited an island between Frisia and Denmark that was sacred to Fosite and was called Fositesland after the god worshipped there.

" According to historian Piers Brendon, " Orwell was the saint of common decency who would in earlier days, said his BBC boss Rushbrook Williams, ' have been either canonised – or burnt at the stake '".

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

According to the Church of England, a saint is one who is sanctified, as it translates in the Authorised King James Version ( 1611 ) 2 Chronicles 6: 41

According to custom, he was named after the patron saint of the church.

According to legend, there was a severe drought at the time, and the people prayed for their patron saint to bring them rain.

According to legend, the Christian apostle and martyr Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland, was crucified on an X-shaped cross at Patras, ( Patrae ), in Achaea.

According to the Vita by his companion Ouen, he'd say: " No Christian on the feast of Saint John or the solemnity of any other saint performs solestitia solstice rites or dancing or leaping or diabolical chants.

According to one story, when saint Willibrord landed in Vlissingen with a bottle in the 7th century, he shared its contents with the beggars he found there while trying to convert them.

According to Chrysostom, when Emperor Julian consulted the oracle of Apollo at the temple in Daphne ( 362 ), he received no answer, and was told that it was because of the proximity of the saint.

According to Ardo, Benedict's biographer, the saint was the son of a Visigoth, Aigulf, Count of Maguelonne ( Magalonensis comes ) in 752.

According to the tradition of the Orthodox church, Saint Brigit lost one of her eyes which saved her from being married against her will as related in the first and second troparia of the fourth ode of the canon of the saint from the Orthodox Matins service:

According to an inscription of the eastern entrance to the tomb, Imam Zamin was a saint from Turkestan, who settled in India in around 1500, during the Sikander Lodhi.

According to St. Bede, Chad was venerated as a saint immediately after his death, and his relics were translated to a new shrine.

According to some Protestant sources the figure of St. John Nepomuk is a legend due to Jesuits and its historical kernel is really Jan Hus, who was metamorphosed from a Bohemian Reformer into a Roman Catholic saint: the Nepomuk story would be based on Wenceslaus Hajek's blending of the Jan who was drowned in 1393 and the Jan who was burned in 1415.

According to tradition, the 5th or 6th century saint Seiriol, after whom Ynys Seiriol ( also known as Puffin Island or Priestholme ) is named, had a hermit's cell in Cwm Graiglwyd.

According to documents, whilst Saint Patrick was a priest at the monastery he was abducted by Irish pirates, later becoming the patron saint of Ireland.

According to Tesfaye Gebre Mariam, Tekle Haymanot " is the only Ethiopian saint celebrated officially in foreign churches such as Rome and Egypt.

According to Heimskringla, the local population of the area started worshipping Eystein as a saint.

According to the 1846 A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, " This parish, formerly called Skirdustan, signifying, in the Gaelic tongue, ' the division of Dustan ,' its tutelary saint, derived its present name from its situation at the mouth of a noisy burn, which discharges itself into the river Spey.

According to the followers of Swaminarayan Hinduism, Narayana took birth as the saint Swaminarayan due to a curse by Durvasa.

According to the website saint. org, the official webpage of The Saint Club, this book is considered the most popular Saint volume.