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Hello everyone and welcome to Catholic Saints. I am sitting down today with Dr. Elizabeth Klein.

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.

So maybe he's new to you as well, but he will not be after this

episode. So Dr. Klein, who is St. Cuthbert? So St. Cuthbert, who is a very beloved saint of

mine, so I'm very happy you agreed to do St. Cuthbert. St. Cuthbert was the third bishop of

Lindisfarne, and he lived from 634 to 687. So he's a kind of

early Irish English saint. It's at the very northern part of England. Okay, and Lindisfarne,

that is a location? Lindisfarne is a location. They called it the Holy Island.

It is a tidal island off the coast of Northumbria.

So it's, again, almost in Scotland.

A tidal island is an island that is accessible at certain tides of day when the tide is low

and inaccessible when the tide is high.

So at certain times...

Sounds like a good place to be. Yeah. So at certain times... If you want to be around no one. It's, yeah, it's cut off. So St. Aden was sort of sent on mission to the further southern lands. Okay. And established Linda Svarn. Okay. So maybe we can talk about St. Aden another time. We could do another one. Stay tuned. But St. Cuthbert is the third bishop of Lindisfarne, which you might think bishop, I thought it was a monastery. Yeah. So it's also a diocese. Is it just of the monastery? Diocese of the monastery. No, there are lots of villages around of people living up there. I mean, I'm sure it's not super heavily populated than us today. It's a small diocese boundary. But it was, you know, there is precedent, which the venerable mentions in the life of comfort for someone to be both abbot and bishop. Okay. So they're both, which is a big responsibility, you're both abbot of the community and also bishop of the surrounding diocese and area. Okay. He goes to this

monastery. What is he doing? So, yeah, so Cuthbert, he's not, there's not a whole lot of information

about his early life, you know, his conversion. I think like one little story about his youth.

But essentially we kind of meet him as he rides up to Lindisfarne to enter the monastery and

sort of dedicate his life to Christ.

And Cuthbert, you know, as you said, he's kind of maybe obscure, seems obscure to you.

But he is the patron of Northumbria who was a

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