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COMMENT:
St. Cuthbert is referred as to ‘child of God’ by St. Bede in his Life of
the Miracle of St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne.
Rerences in the quotations below.
Very usful is the On-line Forham University souce.
Medieval Sourcebook:
Bede: The Life and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindesfarne (721)
Author
Bede was born in 673, in
Northumberland, became a monk and died at Jarrow in 735. His modern feast day
is May 25. He was one of the most important intellects, and most prolific writers
of his time. Among his other accomplishments was in becoming the only
Englishman in Dante's Divine Comedy. His most
important work his isHistory of the English Church and People, but he
wrote many others - biblical commentaries and hagiography in particular.
Saint
Bede's Life of St. Cuthbert, given here complete in the translation by J.A.
Giles, recounts the life of Cuthbert, famed in his time as a miracle worker.
Cuthbert was probably born in Northumberland circa 634. He was educated by
Irish monks at Melrose Abbey. At various times in his life, Cuthbert was a
monk, a solitary, and - briefly - a bishop. He died on Farne Island in 687. His
feast day is March 20. An early anonymous Life of Cuthbert was
written about 700, but the discovery of Cuthbert's uncorrupt body gave a new
impetus to the cult, and Bede used the earlier Life to write
his own verse Life, around 716, and this, longer, prose Life around
721. This includes ten chapters of new material, derived from Herefrith (3, 6,
8-9, 19, 23, 31, 35, 43, and 46). Both the anonymous (in 7 manuscripts) and
Bede's life (in 38 manuscripts) survive. Bede's version was used for two famous
12th-century illuminated [Oxford, Univ. Col MS 165, and Brit. Mus. Yates
Thompson MS 26]. [Farmer, 16-17].
Relics
CHAPTER I
HOW CUTHBERT, THE CHILD OF GOD, WAS WARNED BY A CHILD OF HIS
FUTURE BISHOPRIC
THE beginning of our history of the life of the blessed Cuthbert
is hallowed by Jeremiah the prophet, who, in exaltation of the anchorite's
perfect state, says, " It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke
from his youth; he shall sit alone, and shall be silent, because he shall raise
himself above himself." For, inspired by the sweetness of this good,
Cuthbert, the man of God, from his early youth bent his neck beneath the yoke
of the monastic institution; and when occasion presented itself, having laid
fast hold of the anachoretic life, he rejoiced to sit apart for no small space
of time, and for the sweetness of divine meditation to hold his tongue silent
from human colloquy. But that he should be able to do this in his advanced
years, was the effect of God's grace inciting him gradually to the way of truth
from his early childhood; for even to the eighth year of his life, which is the
first year of boyhood succeeding to infancy, he gave his mind to such plays and
enjoyments alone as boys delight in, so that it might be testified of him as it
was of Samuel, " Moreover Cuthbert knew not yet the Lord, neither had the
voice of the Lord been revealed to him. " Such was the panegyric of his
boyhood, who in more ripened age was destined perfectly to know the Lord, and
opening the ears of his mind to imbibe the voice of God. He took delight, as we
have stated, in mirth and clamour; and, as was natural at his age, rejoiced to
attach himself to the company of other boys, and to share in their sports: and
because he was agile by nature, and of a quick mind, he often prevailed over
them in their boyish contests, and frequently, when the rest were tired, he
alone would hold out, and look triumphantly around to see if any remained to
contend with him for victory. For in jumping, running, wrestling, or any other
bodily exercise, he boasted that he could surpass all those who were of the
same age, and even some that were older than himself. For when he was a child,
he knew as a child, he thought as a child; but afterwards, when he became a
man, he most abundantly laid aside all those childish things.
CHAPTER II
HOW HE BECAME LAME WITH A SWELLING IN
HIS KNEE, AND WAS CURED BY AN ANGEL
BUT because to every one who hath shall
be given, and he shall have abundance; that is, to every one who hath the
determination and the love of virtue, shall be given, by Divine Providence, an
abundance of these things; since Cuthbert, the child of God, carefully retained
in his mind what he had received from the admonition of man, he was thought
worthy also of being comforted by the company and conversation of angels.
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Published on 8 Apr 2013
This is a 62 mile (100km) walk from Melrose in the Scottish Borders to
Holy Island (or Lindisfarne) off the Northumbrian coast. It forms part of the
European E2 route and was created in 1996 to commemorate the life of Saint
Cuthbert who lived and worked in the borders. I walked the route in 4.5 days
staying over at Melrose, Mounthooly near Bonjedward, Kirk Yetholm, Wooler and
Fenwick. I had all four seasons during the walk but it didn't rain or snow. For
information I used the new and useful Cicerone guide to this route by Rudolf
Abraham and the Harvey strip map.
Wikipedia describes Cuthbert as "a 7th century saint and native of the
Borders who spent his life in the service of the church. He began his work at
Melrose Abbey. He achieved the status of Bishop, and when he died he was buried
on Holy Island. He was called a saint eleven years after his death, when his
coffin was opened and his remains found to be perfectly preserved".
Wherever you go stay safe, plan ahead, let people know where you are going, take
maps & compass with your gps and follow the country code. It is best to ask
permission to camp outside of official campsites although the law for campers
is different in Scotland and England.
Soundtrack: Rooks recorded near Maxton in the Scottish Borders.
A full trip report of the walk can be found at: http://rucksackrose.wordpress.com
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