Category Archives: St Cuthbert

1+ Another morning with St Cuthbert, another miracle, and another woman healed. Interesting how much the Anglo-Saxon church, and Cuthbert especially, valued women, how many stories are about [..]

1+ Cuthbert is a pastoral bishop, for whom visiting ordinary people is part of the essence of his ministry. Here another woman close to death is restored to [..]

0 Day 28 of morning prayer with St Cuthbert. Cuthbert travels to the west coast to visit Carlisle again on episcopal duties. While there he meets up with [..]

1+ While Cuthbert is taken on a tourist trip of the Roman ruins of Carlisle, he reels under the disturbance of the air rent by calamitous events elsewhere. [..]

2+ Day 26 of morning prayer with St Cuthbert. Reluctant though he may have been to take up the mantle of episcopacy, Bede is seriously impressed with the [..]

1+ Day 25 of morning prayer with St Cuthbert. On his return from a meeting with his bishop at his first monastery, Cuthbert is urgently asked to come [..]

0 Cuthbert is harried by a princess, and later begged by the king. But he really really doesn’t want to say yes. Chapter 24 of morning prayer with [..]

0 An abbess, a dear friend of Cuthbert’s, is struck by a crippling and incurable illness. But he is far away on his remote island of Farne. Day [..]

0 Day 22 of morning prayer with St Cuthbert. Cuthbert’s reputation has spread across the land – his compassion and wisdom draw the hurting crowds. But he dreads [..]

0 Chapter 21 of Bede’s story of Cuthbert in morning prayer. Cuthbert’s building plans go awry, but are solved unexpectedly. We would probably be tempted to call it [..]