Cuthbert«Cuðberhtus»
(634–687)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος (of Lindisfarne Abbey†), Bishop (of Lindisfarne††)
Place of birth:Kingdom of Bernicia†††
Place of death:Kingdom of Northumbria††††
Place(s) associated with:Dunbar†††††; Durham Cathedral††††††; Farne Islands†††††††; Lindisfarne; St Mary's Abbey, Melrose††††††††
Feastday
20 March
Patronage
Patron of:Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle†††††††††; Meath††††††††††; Kingdom of Northumbria
Patron of:sailors, shepherds
Petitioned for: to withstand cold
†Abbatia Insulae Sacrae / Lindesfarnea mynster [634–1536]
††Holy Island / Lindisfarena / Medcaut / Inis Medcoit / Insula Sacra
†††Beornica ríce / Teyrnas Bryneich [6th cent.–654]
††††Norþanhymbra rīċe / Regnum Northanhymbrorum [654–954]
†††††Dùn Bàrr
††††††The Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham
†††††††Farnea eálond / Farnensis insŭla
††††††††Manachainn Mhuire, Maolros
†††††††††Dioecesis Hagulstadensis et Novacastrensis
††††††††††an Mhí
Saints
This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.
The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.
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Sources
Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia