#st cuthbert

[fmstonecarving]

I recently did a wee run of small, quick carvings in slate. They're at a bit of a more accessible price point for my work, I've just added these and a few other carvings to my Shopify page - https://fmstonecarving.myshopify.com/

[tim-dennis]

St Cuthberts Cave, Northumberland

[mary-maud]

Pagans have desecrated God's sanctuary, shed the blood of saints around the altar... What assurances can the churches of Britain have, if St Cuthbert and so great a company of saints do not defend their own?

Alcuin of York to Aethelred, King of Northumbria, after the Viking raid on Lindisfarne, 8 June 793

[oldschoolfrp]

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.

[enbycrip]

Sitcom/dramedy idea - loosely, *loosely* based on the Wanderings of St Cuthbert.

Your protagonists are six idiot novices/barely monks sent running out the monastery ahead of a Viking attack by their elderly grumpy yet badass mentor who stays behind to cover their escape with the corpse of their monastery’s saintly founder.

The rest of the series is them wandering northern England with the *remarkably active* saintly lich, who has no one else other than these utterly clueless dickheads with which to right wrongs, fight paganism and Vikings and find himself another foundation.

[guy60660]

St Cuthbert | Lindisfarne Castle | © Alamy | Financial Times

[arlathhan]

St Cuthbert's Shrine by Lawrence OP Via Flickr: "He then spent the rest of the day until the evening in the expectation of future happiness; to which he added this also, that he spent the night in watchfulness and prayer. When his hour of evening service was come, he received from me the blessed sacrament, and thus strengthened himself for his departure, which he now knew to be at hand, by partaking of the body and blood of Christ; and when he had lifted up his eyes to heaven, and stretched out his hands above him, his soul, intent upon heavenly praises, sped his way to the joys of the heavenly kingdom." – St Bede, on the Life and Miracles of St Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne. St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne died on this day (20 March) in 687, and he is now enshrined in Durham Cathedral.

[eadfrith]

In Durham Cathedral, Cuthbert’s Tomb is opened in 1104, among the many items found in the coffin is this beautiful little pocket book of the Gospel of St John. This is the oldest European Book with it’s original cover and binding still intact.