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[[Image:Caedmon.jpg|right|frame|St. Caedmon of Whitby]]
Our venerable and God-bearing Father '''Cædmon''' is one of only two Anglo-Saxon poets the first English poet whose names are name is known (the other being Cynewulf). The author of the first recorded poem in English, he is known as the ''Father of English Poetry''. His [[feast day]] in the Church is [[February 11]].
According to [[Bede]], writing in the 7th century, Cædmon was a cow-herd at a Yorkshire [[monastery]], who was unable to sing in public until he miraculously found himself able to sing the ''Creation'', a poem of nine lines. St. [[Hilda of Whitby|Hilda]], the abbess of [[Whitby Abbey]], encouraged his new calling and asked him to join the monastery. The poem we know as "Cædmon's Hymn" was written down by [[Bede]] in Latin in his ''[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]''. The Anglo-Saxon version commonly read today is not, in actuality, Cædmon's own work, but comes from an Anglo-Saxon translation of Bede's history made sometime during the reign of St. [[Alfred the Great]].
[[Category:Saints of the British Isles]]
[[Category:Pre-Schism Western Saints]]
[[Category:7th-century saints]]

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