Editing Cuthbert (section)

{{Short description|7th-century Anglo-Saxon bishop, monk, and saint}}
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{{Redirect|St Cuthbert|other uses|St Cuthbert (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox saint
|honorific_prefix = [[Saint]]
|name=Cuthbert
|birth_date={{circa|634}}
|death_date=20 March 687
|birth_place=[[Dunbar]], [[Northumbria]] (now in Scotland)
|death_place=[[Farne Islands|Inner Farne]], Kingdom of Northumbria (now in England)
|feast_day=20 March, Catholic Church, [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]]; 4 September (Catholic Ordinariates)
|venerated_in=[[Catholic Church]];<br />[[Anglicanism]];<br />[[Eastern Orthodox Church]], [[Church of Scotland]]
|image=Cuthbert discovers piece of timber - Life of St. Cuthbert (late 12th C), f.45v - BL Yates Thompson MS 26.jpg
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|caption=''Cuthbert discovers a piece of timber'', from a 12th-century manuscript of [[Bede]]'s ''Life of St Cuthbert''
|titles=Bishop
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|attributes=Bishop holding a second crowned head in his hands; sometimes accompanied by seabirds and animals
|patronage=Kingdom of Northumbria, [[Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle]]
|major_shrine=[[Durham Cathedral]], England
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'''Cuthbert of Lindisfarne'''{{efn|The ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' entry is simply "Cuthbert",{{sfn|Rollason|Dobson}} as is the entry for the ''Oxford Dictionary of Saints''{{sfn|Farmer|2011|p=108}} and the entry in the ''Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England''.{{sfn|Thacker|2013}} He is called "Cuthbert of Lindisfarne" by Michael Walsh in ''A New Dictionary of Saints''.{{sfn|Walsh|2007|pp=136–137}} His name in [[Old English]] was ''Cūþbeorht'' and in Latin ''Cuthbertus''.{{sfn|Heylyn|1670|p=177}}{{sfn|Searle|1897|p=148}}}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ʌ|θ|.|b|ɜːr|t|}}) ({{circa|634}} – 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the [[Hiberno-Scottish mission|Celtic tradition]]. He was a [[monk]], [[bishop]] and [[hermit]], associated with the [[monastery|monasteries]] of [[Melrose Abbey#History|Melrose]] and [[Lindisfarne]] in the [[Kingdom of Northumbria]],{{efn|Cuthbert came from the [[Bernicia]] part of the new Northumbrian kingdom, which was finally united in 634 around the time of his birth.}} today in northern England and southern Scotland. Both during his life and after his death, he became a popular medieval [[saint]] of [[Northern England]], with a [[cult (religious practice)|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 (United States)|Episcopal Church]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cuthbert |url=http://www.thyateira.org.uk/cuthbert/ |access-date=1 October 2018 |website=Archdiocese of Thyateira & Great Britain |archive-date=17 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217032412/http://www.thyateira.org.uk/cuthbert/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>) and 4 September ([[Church in Wales]], Catholic Church).

Cuthbert grew up in or around [[Lauderdale]], near [[Melrose Abbey|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 of Lindisfarne|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.{{sfn|Battiscombe|1956|pp=120–125}}{{sfn| Farmer|1995|p= 57}} 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.{{sfn|Battiscombe|1956|pp=125–141}}{{sfn| Farmer|1995|p= 60}}