Editing Cuthbert (section)

===Namesakes===
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[[File:Pectoral Cross of St Cuthbert.svg|thumb|left|Cross of Cuthbert]]
The [[flag of County Durham]] since 2013 features the Cross of St Cuthbert, [[counterchanged]] in the county colours of blue and gold. The [[flag of Kirkcudbrightshire]] in Scotland since 2016 likewise features the Cross of St Cuthbert, whose name is the origin of the county's name. The Cross of St Cuthbert features as the principal charge on the coat of arms of the [[University of Durham]], granted in 1843, blazoned ''Argent, a Cross of St Cuthbert Gules, on a canton Azure, a chevron Or, between three lions rampant of the first'' ('A red Cross of St Cuthbert on a silver shield, with three silver fighting lions around a gold chevron on a blue square in the top left-hand corner'). The Cross also features in the arms of many of its constituent colleges. The [[University of Newcastle upon Tyne]], formerly King's College in the University of Durham, also features St Cuthbert's Cross on its arms, granted in 1937. The Newcastle University arms are blazoned ''Azure, a Cross of St Cuthbert Argent, and on a chief of the last a lion passant guardant Gules.'' ('A silver Cross of St Cuthbert on a blue shield, with a red lion walking and looking towards you on the silver top third portion of the shield.') The cross of St Cuthbert also features on the badges of the two Anglican secondary schools in [[Tyne and Wear]], namely [[Dame Allan's Schools]] and Sunderland High School.

[[St Cuthbert's Society]], a college of Durham University established in 1888, is named after him and is located only a short walk from the coffin of the saint at Durham Cathedral. The Society celebrates St Cuthbert's Day on or around each 20 March with a feast. "Cuth's Day", the annual college day, is celebrated in the Easter term with music, entertainment, festivities and drinking. Cuddy's Corse is a [[waymarking|waymarked]] walking route between [[Chester-le-Street]] and Durham Cathedral; it marks the journey between two of the last resting places of the coffin.

[[Worksop College]], founded as St Cuthbert's in 1895, was the last of the [[List of Woodard Schools|Woodard Schools]] to be opened.

St Cuthbert is also the namesake of [[St Cuthbert's College, Auckland|St Cuthbert's College]] in [[Epsom, New Zealand]]; St Cuthbert's Day on 21 March is a day of school celebration. The school's houses are named after important locations in the life of the saint: [[Dunblane Cathedral|Dunblane]] (yellow), [[Elgin, Moray|Elgin]] (green), Iona (purple), [[Kelso Abbey|Kelso]] (blue), [[Lindisfarne]] (white), [[Melrose Abbey|Melrose]] (red), York (orange) and Durham (pink).

[[St Cuthbert's High School]], a Roman Catholic school in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], is named after the saint. St Cuthbert's Day is celebrated with Mass, and the [[school prayer]]s include reference to their patron saint (always ending with the invocation "St Cuthbert, pray for us"). The school badge features a bishop's crook in reference to St Cuthbert's time as a bishop, as well as ducks, reflecting his love of the animals.

Another Roman Catholic secondary school to bear the name of St Cuthbert is [[St Cuthbert's RC High School]] in [[Rochdale]]. Founded in 1968 as Bishop Henshaw School it was renamed to its current name in the late 1980s. The school's badge includes the St Cuthbert Cross and the motto "In Christ We Serve".

[[St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society]] (now [[Scotmid]]) opened its first shop in Edinburgh in 1859, and expanded to become one of the largest co-ops in Scotland. Its dairy used horse-drawn delivery floats until 1985, and between 1944 and 1959 employed as a milkman [[Sean Connery]], who later played [[James Bond]].

The [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle]] holds St Cuthbert as its patron saint, with the consecration of bishops in the diocese always taking place on 20 March, Cuthbert's feast day in the Catholic Church.

Many churches are named after Cuthbert. An Orthodox Community in [[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]], England, has taken St Cuthbert as their patron.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stcuthbertsorthodoxcommunity.co.uk/|title=Loading...|website=stcuthbertsorthodoxcommunity.co.uk|access-date=26 October 2022|archive-date=26 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026190807/http://www.stcuthbertsorthodoxcommunity.co.uk/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Fossilised [[crinoid]] columnals extracted from limestone quarried on Lindisfarne, or found washed up along the foreshore, which were threaded into necklaces or rosaries, became known as [[St. Cuthbert's beads]].

In Northumberland, the [[eider duck]] is known as the cuddy duck. While on the Farne Islands, Cuthbert instituted special laws to protect the ducks and other seabirds nesting on the islands.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eiderdown.org/famous-eider-colony.html|title=Eiderdown: Famous Eider Colony|website=eiderdown.org}}</ref><ref name=cduck/> They still breed in their thousands off the present day Northumberland coast.<ref name="cduck">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/livingworld_20020303.shtml|title=BBC – Radio 4 – The Living World: The Eider Duck|website=bbc.co.uk}}</ref>

In Cumbria, the civil parish and hamlet of [[Holme St Cuthbert]] are named after him, as is the parish church. It is a rural area, with one larger village and numerous smaller hamlets.

[[St Cuthbert's Way]] is a long-distance walking route, one of [[Scotland's Great Trails]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stcuthbertsway.info/|title=St Cuthbert's Way &#124; Long Distance Walk from Melrose in the Borders Scotland to Holy Island in Northumberland England|website=St Cuthbert's Way}}</ref>

Cuthbert is [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|remembered]] in the [[Church of England]] with a [[Lesser Festival (Anglicanism)|Lesser Festival]] on [[March 20|20 March]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Calendar |url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar |access-date=2021-03-27 |website=The Church of England |language=en}}</ref> or alternatively 4 September and in the [[Roman Catholic Church]] in England on 4 September.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2023/Sep.shtml | title=Liturgical Calendar &#124; September 2023 }}</ref>