medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 09/02/11, Terri Morgan wrote:
> Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (d. 687) became a monk at Melrose in 651, trained in Irish monastic practices (although possibly a Saxon by birth). He accepted the pro-Roman decision of the Synod of Whitby, then withdrew to Farne as a hermit. In 684 Cuthbert became bishop of Lindisfarne, but he resigned and returned to his hermitage before death. Cuthbert's relics reached Durham in 995 and became the most popular pilgrim attraction of northern England in the Middle Ages. His relics are still there; somehow they escaped destruction under Henry VIII.
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Cuthbert's principal feast both in the Church of England and in that of Rome falls on 20. March, his _dies natalis_. His feast on 4. September was (is it still observed?) an originally medieval translation feast commemorating C.'s translation in Durham Cathedral in 1104, when his body was proclaimed to be still incorrupt. Not mentioned in the Roman Martyrology, it is absent from the Roman Catholic _National Calendar for England_. It is likewise absent from the Church of England's Common Worship calendar, where under 4. September one finds a commemoration of St. Birinus of Dorchester (this too is a translation feast).
A king (often identified as Æthelstan) and Cuthbert as depicted in a tenth-century copy of St. Bede the Venerable's Vitae of C. (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 183, fol. 4):
http://www.oberlin.edu/images/Art335/335-148.JPG
Best,
John Dillon
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