#st cuthbert

[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.

[britishsticks]

Gothic

[museumsandfolk]

[guy60660]

St Cuthbert | Lindisfarne Castle | © Alamy | Financial Times

[simonreid]

Cuddy

Cuddy by Benjamin Myers Cuddy is four novellas in one chunky volume, all linked by the life and legacy of St Cuthbert and his final resting place of Durham Cathedral. He was a humble hermit, wandering healer and missionary, and eventually a highly respected Bishop. He was already legendary in the North of England by the time he died in 687, having isolated himself on a remote island (little more…

[maypoleman1]

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.

[vox-anglosphere]

Durham

*Durham Cathedral Chapter at Prayer at the Tomb of St Cuthbert of Durham,

Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Durham,

Did you know the Banner of St Cuthbert was carried before the English Army up to the time of the Reformation

[jadafitch]

Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)

[wandering-cemeteries]

St. Cuthbert Kirkyard

Edinburgh, Scotland

Feb 2017

[fluentisonus]

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

[chirpsythismorning]

SHES PERFECT!!

[cloehotham]

Candles at Mass

[sergeifyodorov]

st cuthbert of northumbria | jake oettinger

[shannyh25]

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.

I found these pictures on Pinterest.

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[taffatdarkhistorytours]

Farewell to a friend and a lesson in photography

I visited Edinburgh this week. I lived here for nearly 2 years but was so busy with work (In the city, practically any construction work will require archaeological intervention of some sort, so I was kept very busy) that I did not really see much outside of where I lived – Leith. Guard tower in St Cuthberts, built in 1827 I was here this week for a funeral. A friend died on New Years Eve.…