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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.
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 ...
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.
In 1964 he became Rector of St Cuthbert, Port Elizabeth; [5] and in 1970 of St Phillip in the same city. [ 6 ] He died on the 6th of November 1984, and his ashes were interred in the St Cuthbert's Garden of Remembrance.
Bonner also originated courses on St. Cuthbert, [6] the most important medieval saint of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. Cuthbert is also regarded as the patron saint of Northumbria. [27] Bonner presented a paper for the Cuthbert Conference of 1987, published as St. Cuthbert, His Cult and His Community to ...
Cuthbert's incorrupt body. 12th-century miniature from British Library Yates Thomson MS 26 version of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert. The Historia de Sancto Cuthberto ("History of St Cuthbert") is a historical compilation finished some time after 1031.
Cuthbert Mayne (c. 1543–29 November 1577) was an English Catholic priest executed under the laws of Elizabeth I. He was the first of the seminary priests trained on the Continent to be martyred. Mayne was beatified in 1886 and canonised as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales in 1970.
The Order of St Cuthbert is an international Anglican monastic order that follows a historic Celtic monastic tradition and rule, which is similar to that of a Franciscan rule. The order currently has monastics in the United States, Canada, and Nigeria.