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[[Image:Cuthbert.jpg|right|frame|St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne]]
Our father among the [[saint]]s '''Cuthbert of Lindisfarne''', [[Wonder-worker]] of Britain, was a [[monastic]] [[missionary]] and [[bishop]] during the seventh century, in Scotland and the north of England. He is a widely [[veneration|venerated]] saint in England. His [[feast day]] is celebrated on [[March 20]]. [[September 4]] is the commemoration of the [[Translation (relics)|translation ]] of his [[relics]] to Durham.
==Life==
Not much is known for certain of Cuthbert's youth. Variously, he has been thought to have been of Irish origin, named "Mulloche" and descended from Irish royalty, or of Northumbrian birth of well-to-do English stock, with either warrior or sheep-herding training. He was raised in the Scottish lowlands by a poor widow named Kenswith. His date of birth is given as 634 or 635. His course in life seems to have turned on an experience when he was tending sheep one night. Cuthbert saw lights in the sky that he interpreted to be an [[angel]] descending to earth and returning to [[heaven]] with the [[soul]] of St. [[Aidan of Lindisfarne]], whom he found later to have died that evening, [[August 31]], 651. Through this event he decided to go to the Melrose [[Abbey]] on the Tweed River and become a [[monk]].
Cuthbert was a monk at Melrose under St. Eata from 651 to 661 where he was taught the [[Holy Scripture|scriptures]] by the [[prior]], St. Boisil. In 661, he joined a new [[monastery]] at Ripon, with St. Eata, where he was the guestmaster. Cuthbert returned to Melrose, after King Alcfrid placed Ripon under St. Wilfrid's leadership, and there he became the prior after the death St. Boisil. It was while at Melrose that Cuthbert began his missionary efforts throughout Northumbria. He became ill with the plague that was endemic in the area, and which had been the cause of the death of Boisil. While Cuthbert recovered his health henceforth was undermined.
[[Image:Whitby Abbey.jpg|thumb|right|200pxl|[[Whitby Abbey]]]]
*[[w:Cuthbert of Lindisfarne|Cuthbert of Lindisfarne]] on Wikipedia
*[http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/jchiaromonte/cuthbert5.htm Cuthbert]
*[http://wwwstmaterne.odoxblogspot.netcom/Icons2008/03/saint-cuthbert-de-lindisfarne-le-Cuthbertsaint.htm Icon html Icons of St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne]
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