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The Vita Sancti Cuthberti (English: "Life of Saint Cuthbert") is a prose hagiography from early medieval Northumbria.It is probably the earliest extant saint's life from Anglo-Saxon England, and is an account of the life and miracles of Cuthbert (died 687), a Bernician hermit-monk who became bishop of Lindisfarne.
Cuthbert (Old English: Cūþbeorht, Latin: Cuthbertus; [1] [2] died 26 October 760) was a medieval Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury in England. Prior to his elevation to Canterbury, he was abbot of a monastic house, and perhaps may have been Bishop of Hereford also, but evidence for his holding Hereford mainly dates from after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
The St Cuthbert Gospel, also known as the Stonyhurst Gospel or the St Cuthbert Gospel of St John, is an early 8th-century pocket gospel book, written in Latin. Its finely decorated leather binding is the earliest known Western bookbinding to survive, and both the 94 vellum folios and the binding are in outstanding condition for a book of this age.
Harold Jocelyn Buxton [1] (20 June 1880 – 13 March 1976) was a British Church of England cleric. He was Bishop of Gibraltar [2] from 1933 [3] to 1947. [4] Buxton was born into a noble family, the son of Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet, [5] on 20 June 1880. [6] He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. [7]
Cuthbert of Lindisfarne [a] (c. 634 – 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition.He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria, [b] today in northern England and southern Scotland.
Parish priest at St Cuthbert's Church, Bradford John O'Connor (5 December 1870 – 6 February 1952) was an Irish Catholic parish priest in England who was the basis of G. K. Chesterton 's fictional detective Father Brown .
John Cuthbert Hedley (15 April 1837 – 11 November 1915) was a British Benedictine and writer who held high offices in the Roman Catholic Church. [1] Born in Morpeth, Northumberland, he was the son of Dr. Edward Astley Hedley and Mary Ann (née Davison) Hedley. He was educated at Mr Gibson's Grammar School and then at Ampleforth College. [2]
Cuncacestre was the centre of Christianity for much of the northeast, because it was the seat of the Bishop of Lindisfarne, making the church a cathedral. [6] The diocese stretched between the boundaries of Danelaw at Teesside in the south, of Alba at Lothian in the north and the Irish Sea in the west.