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For Bede's two dedicated accounts of Cuthbert's life, the Anonymous Life is the chief source. [73] Bede however made little acknowledgment of his debt to the Anonymous Life in either his prose or verse life, and indeed if we were dependent only on Bede we would probably not know the work ever existed. [74]
Life of St. Cuthbert (prose) Bede wrote two lives of St Cuthbert; this one is in prose and was composed in about 721. [25] It is in part based on an earlier life of St Cuthbert, anonymous but probably written by a monk of Lindisfarne. [28] Martyrology. Description: Bede probably wrote this between 725 and 731. [29]
St Cuthbert's Church there was the closest church to them at the time (it was demolished and rebuilt in the 1970s) [4]. In 1832, a Sunday school was started in the Mill Dam area of the town. On 4 December 1849, St Cuthbert's Church in South Shields was opened. It was on Western Approach and the building was a former protestant chapel.
The incorrupt body of Cuthbert from Bede's Life of Cuthbert, 12th century Location of St Cuthbert's tomb and reburial in Durham Cathedral; behind is a damaged statue of St Cuthbert, holding the head of the king St Oswald (whose head was reburied with Cuthbert) According to Bede's life of the saint, when Cuthbert's sarcophagus was opened eleven ...
Bede would also have been familiar with more recent accounts such as Stephen of Ripon's Life of Wilfrid, and anonymous Life of Gregory the Great and Life of Cuthbert. [63] He also drew on Josephus 's Antiquities , and the works of Cassiodorus , [ 67 ] and there was a copy of the Liber Pontificalis in Bede's monastery. [ 68 ]
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.
Colgrave's annotated translation of Bede's 7th century prose Life of St Cuthbert was published in 1940. Title page of 10th-century manuscript in British Library with animal heads and plant motifs in first illuminated letter.
The Life of Saint Guthlac and Bede's Life of St Cuthbert for instance both provide a description of how to be a good monk or hermit. [70] There are other stories within the hagiographies that would have had greater relevance to layfolk, in particular members of the royalty and nobility. [71]