Cuthbert

<p>Cuthbert of Lindisfarne  (c. 634 – 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the <a href="/facts/Hiberno-Scottish_mission/qsxMGRoq">Celtic tradition</a>. He was a <a href="/facts/Monk/mDhTrNcB">monk</a>, <a href="/facts/Bishop/n2QGsDWx">bishop</a> and <a href="/facts/Hermit/pzIx54F4">hermit</a>, associated with the <a href="/facts/Monastery/t8MRXpsM">monasteries</a> of <a href="/facts/Melrose_Abbey/nnhMzuCd">Melrose</a> and <a href="/facts/Lindisfarne/0RqLVzJM">Lindisfarne</a> in the <a href="/facts/Kingdom_of_Northumbria/fkVzk6xc">Kingdom of Northumbria</a>, today in northern England and southern Scotland. Both during his life and after his death, he became a popular medieval <a href="/facts/Saint/lDE6So1B">saint</a> of <a href="/facts/Northern_England/t8vE0yXq">Northern England</a>, with a <a href="/facts/Cult_(religious_practice)/2Slz1GeL">cult</a> centred on his tomb at <a href="/facts/Durham_Cathedral/4dKQp92Y">Durham Cathedral</a>. Cuthbert is regarded as the <a href="/facts/Patron_saint/Gw1cv1vH">patron saint</a> of Northumbria. His feast days are 20 March (<a href="/facts/Catholic_Church/rJ4F4gqH">Catholic Church</a>, <a href="/facts/Church_of_England/A1CoKeGz">Church of England</a>, <a href="/facts/Eastern_Orthodox_Church/5n20Akh5">Eastern Orthodox Church</a>, <a href="/facts/Episcopal_Church_(United_States)/fmF3F2FM">Episcopal Church</a>) and 4 September (<a href="/facts/Church_in_Wales/tE5BJqu7">Church in Wales</a>, Catholic Church).
</p><p>Cuthbert grew up in or around <a href="/facts/Lauderdale/F2kneQ14">Lauderdale</a>, near <a href="/facts/Melrose_Abbey/nnhMzuCd">Old Melrose Abbey</a>, a daughter-house of Lindisfarne, today in Scotland. He decided to become a monk after seeing a vision on the night in 651 that <a href="/facts/Aidan_of_Lindisfarne/M1HVIqfs">Aidan</a>, 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 <a href="/facts/Ripon/KEdXoC8v">Ripon</a>, soon after 655, but had to return with <a href="/facts/Eata_of_Hexham/wozKGpgV">Eata of Hexham</a> to Melrose when <a href="/facts/Wilfrid/8cfERGsT">Wilfrid</a> 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.
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