#St Cuthbert

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Old time religion -- A mendicant collects alms outside a temple in the Free City of Greyhawk. (Jeff Easley, AD&D supplement Greyhawk Adventures by Jim Ward, TSR, 1988)

In the world of Greyhawk the priesthood of St Cuthbert is divided into three orders: the Chapeaux, the Stars, and the Billets. All three orders have access to the beguiling spell, which imbues their cudgels with the power to charm one opponent by touch. The cleric may tap the target to help convert them to the faith, or attempt a damaging attack on a more incorrigible soul.

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St Cuthbert | Lindisfarne Castle | © Alamy | Financial Times

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20th March

St Cuthbert’s Day

Source: Aidan Hart Sacred Icons website

Today is St Cuthbert’s Day. Cuthbert was a seventh century monk and hermit whose reputation became mythical almost immediately and he soon became England’s most popular saint. Allegedly, after having set up base on the Farne Islands he banished the goblins he found there and later became a friend to all animals, blessing an eagle, seals and even two passing sea monsters. Cuthbert’s good will did not however extend to women: he hated them. His misogyny probably originated when a Pictish woman baselessly accused the holy man of being the father of her child. Horrified, Cuthbert prayed for proof of his innocence and the ground promptly opened up and swallowed the woman whole. Her distraught father begged for forgiveness and the chastened female accuser reappeared but Cuthbert vowed never to have anything to do with women again. From then on, his ministry was a strictly men-only affair, even after he became Bishop of Lindisfarne in Northumbria. This continued after his death - churches dedicated to Cuthbert did not allow women to enter. Apparently a woman who tried to get round this stricture by sneaking at night into Durham Cathedral where Cuthbert’s body lay, died after seemingly having cut her own throat. Another woman who strayed too close to the saint’s tomb suffered a fatal stroke.

Lindisfarne became a centre of pilgrimage, and after the priory there was sacked by the Danes in 875, Cuthbert’s fame was such that his bones were transported across the country from town to town by his faithful monks so the folk could seek blessing and Christian inspiration. So powerful was the good fortune associated with his relics, rival Anglo-Saxon kingdoms would sometimes fight over their possession.

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when will the british library manuscripts online come back from the war!!!!!

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SHES PERFECT!!

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st cuthbert of northumbria | jake oettinger

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! I thought of Anne and when she dyed her hair green all because Gilbert called her Carrots. Poor Anne looks so miserable.i thought these pictures of Anne with green hair was fitting for today.

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West end last night

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St Cuthbert’s Kirkyard, EH2

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In honour of St Cuthbert's Day, and #otterday2024, here is my take on Cabin Pressure: Ottery St Mary.

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Saxon Christians: OMG thE TEEth Of SaINt CuTHberT!!!

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The Journey Ends: Durham Cathedral

Images and impressions of one of the world's most magnificent buildings, as my St. Cuthbert pilgrimage ends at Durham Cathedral.

St. Cuthbert’s Cross (late 7th century). This pectoral cross of gold and garnet was found in St. Cuthbert’s coffin in 1827. It was hung around his neck, but whether he wore it in life is uncertain. This is the third and final part of my pilgrimage account from St. Cuthbert’s Way and beyond. The previous installments can be found at these links:  Walking St. Cuthbert’s Way Grace and Beauty on…

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It’s Fine Press Friday!

In 1974, Lewis and Dorothy Allen, long-time proprietors of the Allen Press in California, hand-printed this version of John Dryden’s 17th-century play All for Love, a tragedy in blank verse about the affair of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. It was printed on an 1846 Columbia handpress in an edition of 140 copies using handset Menhart Unciala for the text and Hadriano for display, and printed on damp rag paper specially handmade for the Allen Press at St. Cuthberts Mill, England. The edition includes a portrait of Cleopatra hand-painted in gold and seven colors on papyrus made by craftsmen at the Cairo workshop of Dr. Hassan Ragab. Each act opens with a cut of a drawing by Victor Seward hand-colored by Dorothy Allen, and the right-hand margins of every text page are decorated with Egyptian hieroglyphs and symbols in a sequence of four colors and black.

Our copy of is yet another donation from our friend Jerry Buff.

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Looking North along Lytham Road, South Shore, in 1910 and 2022.

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