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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...

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

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

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.

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

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.

This is a detail of an alabaster statuette in the reredos of Newcastle Cathedral.

Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just (1767-1794) was a prominent figure of the French Revolution (1789-1799). After his election to the National Convention in September 1792, he led the push for the execution of King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792...

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

Mont-Saint-Michel is the name of a tidal island located off the coasts of Normandy and Brittany, near the mouths of the Couesnon River and the town of Avranches in France. While the island of Mont-Saint-Michel has held cultural, religious...