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St. Cuthbert - English
URL: http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/CUTHBERT.htm

When the Northumbrians, under the pious King Oswald, had, with great fervour, embraced the Christian faith, the holy Bishop St. Aidan founded two monasteries, that of Mailros, on the bank of the Tweed, and another in the isle of Lindisfarne, afterwards called Holy Island, four miles distant from Berwick.

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Cuthbert, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/cu/Cuthbert.html

Celtic monk, bishop at Lindisfarne (685–86). He spent some time in the monastery at Ripon. When St. Wilfrid introduced the Roman computation of Easter there, he left, but later he accepted the change. Cuthbert preached for some years in his native Scotland, especially to the Picts of Galloway.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Cuthbert - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04578a.htm

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Bishop of Lindisfarne, patron of Durham, born about 635; died 20 March, 687. His emblem is the head of St. Oswald, king and martyr, which he is represented as bearing in his hands. His feast is kept in Great Britain and Ireland on the 20th of March, and he is patron of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle, where his commemoration is inserted among the Suffrages of the Saints.

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Biography: Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Bishop and Missionary (20 Mar 687) - English
URL: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/03/20.html

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Patron Saints Index: Saint Cuthbert - English
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintc25.htm

Orphaned at an early age. Shepherd. Received a vision of Saint Aidan entering heaven; it led him to become a Benedictine monk at age 17 at the monastery of Melrose, which had been founded by Saint Aidan. Spiritual student of Saint Boswell. Prior of Melrose in 664.

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Medieval Sourcebook: Bede: Life of St. Cuthbert - English
URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/bede-cuthbert.html

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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 is History of the English Church and People, but he wrote many others - biblical commentaries and hagiography in particular.

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