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| Description: | St. Cuthbert's Church in Denton, Cumbria, England from http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/photoindex_f.html where you'll find links to many more pictures of Cumbria. Who is St. Cuthbert ? Well his birthday is March 20, 630AD. Saint Cuthbert is easily the most well-known of the Anglo-Saxon saints, as much for events after his death in 687 as before. He became a monk at Melrose in 651, and was part of the first monastic community at Ripon. In the later 660s he became prior of Lindisfarne, but in 676 he retired to the less accessible island of Farne. In 685, he was made bishop of Lindisfarne, somewhat reluctantly. After Christmas 686 he retired once again to Farne Island, where he died a few months later. ----- Within fifty years of his death there were three biographies of Cuthbert, an anonymous life commissioned by the Bishop of Lindisfarne in about 700, and two written by the Venerable Bede, one of the foremost scholars of the day. These works picture him as a simple monk, a pastor and teacher, a man who sees visions and experiences miracles. Cuthbert's connections with the Northumbrian royal family affect how he was viewed in history -- as when Ælfflæd, abbess and daughter of a king, asks him to prophesy about the reign of King Ecgfrith, and he foretells Ecgfrith's death. Eleven years later after his own death, Cuthbert's tomb was opened and the body was found to be uncorrupted (that is, undecayed), which was taken as a great sign of sanctity, and miracles have been claimed in his name ever since. from http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=day&id=03200687 |
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