Cuthbert
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Cuthbert () ( – 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition. He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria, today in north-eastern England and south-eastern Scotland. Both during his life and after his death, he became a popular medieval saint of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. Cuthbert is regarded as the patron saint of Northumbria. His feast days are 20 March (Catholic Church, Church of England, Eastern Orthodox Church, Episcopal Church) a
Key facts
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Cuthbert
- Saint.death_date
- 20 March 687
- Saint.birth_place
- Dunbar, Northumbria (now in Scotland)
- Saint.death_place
- Inner Farne, Kingdom of Northumbria (now in Scotland)
- Saint.feast_day
- 20 March, Catholic Church, Episcopal Church; 4 September (Catholic Ordinariates)
- Saint.venerated_in
- Catholic ChurchAnglicanismEastern Orthodox ChurchChurch of Scotland
- Saint.image
- Cuthbert discovers piece of timber - Life of St. Cuthbert (late 12th C), f.45v - BL Yates Thompson MS 26.jpg
- Saint.caption
- Cuthbert discovers a piece of timber, from a 12th-century manuscript of Bede's Life of St Cuthbert
- Saint.titles
- Bishop
- Saint.attributes
- Bishop holding a second crowned head in his hands; sometimes accompanied by seabirds and animals
- Saint.patronage
- Kingdom of Northumbria, Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle
- Saint.major_shrine
- Durham Cathedral, England
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Cuthbert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Northumbria
- Place of birth
- Smailholm
- Place of death
- Farne Islands
- Occupation
- Catholic bishop
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Field of work
- hermit
- Image
- Durham St Cuthbert.jpg
- Work location
- England
- Religious order
- Benedictines
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- Commons category
- Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
- date of death
- 0687-03-20
- canonization status
- thaumaturge
- date of birth
- 0635-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- name in native language
- Cuthbert
- feast day
- March 20
- has works in the collection
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- place of burial
- Durham Cathedral
- writing language
- Latin
- consecrator
- Theodore of Tarsus
- subject has role
- bishop
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36 sectionsContents
- Life
- Origins and background
- Career
- Hermit's life
- Election as Bishop, Lindisfarne and death
- Legacy
- Relics
- Namesakes
- Dedications
- Scotland
- Northumberland
- Tyne and Wear
- Cumbria
- County Durham
- North Yorkshire
- East Yorkshire
- South Yorkshire
- Lancashire
- Merseyside
- Greater Manchester
- Cheshire
- Derbyshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Lincolnshire
- West Midlands and Warwickshire
- Herefordshire
- London
- Somerset and Bristol
- Dorset
- New Zealand
- See also
- Notes
- Citations
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Cuthbert () ( – 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition. He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria, today in north-eastern England and south-eastern Scotland. Both during his life and after his death, he became a popular medieval saint of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. Cuthbert is regarded as the patron saint of Northumbria. His feast days are 20 March (Catholic Church, Church of England, Eastern Orthodox Church, Episcopal Church) and 4 September (Church in Wales, Catholic Church).
Cuthbert grew up in or around Lauderdale, near Old Melrose Abbey, a daughter-house of Lindisfarne, today in Scotland. He decided to become a monk after seeing a vision on the night in 651 that Aidan, the founder of Lindisfarne, died, but he seems to have experienced some period of military service beforehand. He was made guest-master at the new monastery at Ripon, soon after 655, but had to return with Eata of Hexham to Melrose when Wilfrid was given the monastery instead. About 662 he was made prior at Melrose, and around 665 went as prior to Lindisfarne. In 684 he was made bishop of Lindisfarne, but by late 686 he resigned and returned to his hermitage as he felt he was about to die. He was probably in his early 50s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cuthbert” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.