St. Cuthbert

Catholic Saints

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🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Dr. Elizabeth Klein and Taylor Kemp discuss the life of St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne from Northern England, a lesser-known saint in the Church today but a beloved bishop of his time. Known for his amiable personality and unique relationship with otters, St. Cuthbert radiated persistent cheerfulness to those he met and modeled holiness throughout the various stages of his life. His feast day is March 20.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints. This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute,
0:09.2	an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.
0:20.3	Hello everyone and welcome to Catholic Saints. I am sitting down today with Dr. Elizabeth Klein.
0:26.4	Hello, Dr. Klein. Hello, Taylor. Great to have you here. Today we're talking about a saint that I had never heard of until a few days ago named St. Cuthbert.
0:36.5	So maybe he's new to you as well, but he will not be after this
0:40.2	episode. So Dr. Klein, who is St. Cuthbert? So St. Cuthbert, who is a very beloved saint of
0:47.7	mine, so I'm very happy you agreed to do St. Cuthbert. St. Cuthbert was the third bishop of
0:52.9	Lindisfarne, and he lived from 634 to 687. So he's a kind of
0:58.3	early Irish English saint. It's at the very northern part of England. Okay, and Lindisfarne,
1:06.8	that is a location? Lindisfarne is a location. They called it the Holy Island.
1:13.1	It is a tidal island off the coast of Northumbria.
1:17.3	So it's, again, almost in Scotland.
1:19.2	A tidal island is an island that is accessible at certain tides of day when the tide is low
1:24.2	and inaccessible when the tide is high.
1:27.0	Sounds like a good place to be. Yeah. So at certain times... Sounds like a good place to be.
1:28.6	Yeah.
1:28.9	So at certain times...
1:29.7	If you want to be around no one.
1:31.5	It's, yeah, it's cut off.
1:32.6	So St. Aden was sort of sent on mission to the further southern lands.
1:38.6	Okay.
1:39.2	And established Linda Svarn.
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