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==Biography==
==Biography==
===Life===
By 654, while living as a hermit in retirement, Cuthbert was visited by then-King of {{Wiki|Deira}}, [[Ecgfrith of Northumbria|Ecgfrith]].<ref name="DTVA">''[[Discovery Tour: Viking Age]]'' – [[Learnings: Bishops: A Divided Duty]]</ref> Asking him to take back up his charge, Cuthbert was then later consecrated in [[York]] on 26 March 685.<ref>{{WP|Cuthbert}}</ref> After his return to the hermit life and his death in 687, Cuthbert was canonized as a saint.<ref name="DTVA"/>
By 654, while living as a hermit in retirement, Cuthbert was visited by then-King of {{Wiki|Deira}}, [[Ecgfrith of Northumbria|Ecgfrith]].<ref name="DTVA">''[[Discovery Tour: Viking Age]]'' – [[Learnings: Bishops: A Divided Duty]]</ref> Asking him to take back up his charge, Cuthbert was then later consecrated in [[York]] on 26 March 685.<ref>{{WP|Cuthbert}}</ref> After his return to the hermit life and his death in 687, Cuthbert was canonized as a saint.<ref name="DTVA"/>


===Legacy===
Cuthbert's exploits were later compiled by the historian monk [[Bede]] in the ''Vita S Cuthberti'' by the early 700s. Said work was then later adapted into an illustrated codex in the 12th century.<ref name="DTVA"/>
Cuthbert's exploits were later compiled by the historian monk [[Bede]] in the ''Vita S Cuthberti'' by the early 700s. Said work was then later adapted into an illustrated codex in the 12th century.<ref name="DTVA"/>


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Cuthbert (c. 634 – 687) was an Anglo-Saxon monk and Bishop of Lindisfarne later venerated as a saint.

Biography[edit | edit source]

By 654, while living as a hermit in retirement, Cuthbert was visited by then-King of Deira, Ecgfrith.[1] Asking him to take back up his charge, Cuthbert was then later consecrated in York on 26 March 685.[2] After his return to the hermit life and his death in 687, Cuthbert was canonized as a saint.[1]

Cuthbert's exploits were later compiled by the historian monk Bede in the Vita S Cuthberti by the early 700s. Said work was then later adapted into an illustrated codex in the 12th century.[1]

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