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Saint Cuthbert
Saint Cuthbert (c. 634 - 20 March 687) was an Anglo-Saxon monk from the Kingdom of Northumbria, who became the bishop of Lindisfarne and one of the most important saints of the medieval church in England. He first became a monk at Melrose...

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Guthlac of Crowland
Guthlac of Crowland (c. 674 - 11 April 714 CE) was an Anglo-Saxon saint from the Kingdom of Mercia. He is best known for his years spent as a hermit in the Fens region of the East Midlands. Guthlac was born into a noble Mercian family and...

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Saint Cuthbert's Incorrupt Body
The discovery of his Saint Cuthbert's incorrupt body in an illuminated manuscript of Bede's Life of St Cuthbert, MS 39943, c. 1180.
British Library, London.

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Saint Cuthbert as Shepherd
Stained glass window of Saint Cuthbert (c. 634 - 20 March 687) in St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh.

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St. Cuthbert's Island
St. Cuthbert's Island, near Lindisfarne, where Saint Cuthbert (c. 634 - 20 March 687) retired to live in solitude before he was offered the bishopric of Lindisfarne.

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Saint Cuthbert at Lindisfarne
Statue of Saint Cuthbert (c. 634 - 20 March 687) at Lindisfarne Priory.

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St Cuthbert with St Oswald's head
This is a detail of an alabaster statuette in the reredos of Newcastle Cathedral.

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Saint Cuthbert
Stained glass window of Saint Cuthbert (c. 634-687), monk and bishop of Lindisfarne, in Newcastle Cathedral.

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The Story of St Cuthbert
Learn about the life of St Cuthbert, and why his story is so closely linked with Durham Cathedral.

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Sioux Chief Two Strike (Eastman's Biography)
Two Strike (Numpkahapa/Nomkahpa, l. c. 1831-1915) was a Lakota Sioux chief of the Brule band, who fought against the US military consistently from Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) through the Great Sioux War (1876-1877) and was present at the...