Encyclopedia entry: Guthlac, St

Dictionary definition: Guthlac
The Oxford Dictionary of Saints;      700+ words ...Guthlac ( c. 673–714), hermit of ... opened and the body found incorrupt. The Guthlac cult began, centred on his shrine at Crowland ... the British Museum, usually called the Guthlac Roll. This is a series of eighteen roundels ...

Article: The case of the miraculous hand in the Old English prose life of ...
ANQ;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... first editor of the Vespasian life of Guthlac was of the opinion that "the writer often ... telling of the miraculous events related to Guthlac's birth, Felix relates that a hand ... cross that stood before the house in which Guthlac was born, whereas in the OE account the ...

Dictionary definition: Pega
The Oxford Dictionary of Saints;      371 words ... ... Pega (d. c. 719), virgin, sister of Guthlac . She lived as an anchoress at Peakirk ... in Northamptonshire, not far from Guthlac's hermitage at Crowland. When he realized ... from Wisbech on the way. She inherited Guthlac's psalter and scourge, both of which ...

Article: Award gives school sense of achievement.
Spalding Guardian & Lincs Free Press (Spalding, England);  December 11, 2007 ;     534 words ... ... are celebrating after Crowland's St Guthlac School received the Sportsmark Award from ... physical education and school sport. St Guthlac School was one of 24 schools out of the ... work being done by staff and pupils at St Guthlac. "The school is close to achieving the ...

Article: Gutsy display but schools fail to qualify.
Spalding Guardian & Lincs Free Press (Spalding, England);  October 24, 2007 ;     414 words ... ... Farmer Technology College finished seventh with St Guthlac School 13th. St Guthlac's junior boys team managed an eighth place finish ... nine and ten) faired a little better, with St Guthlac finishing fifth and George Farmer sixth. George ...

Article: MONSTERS AND CHRISTIAN ENEMIES.
History Today;  February 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... suffering in hell. Such was the threat posed by demons for St Guthlac, according to Felix's eighth-century Life of St Guthlac, as illustrated in the thirteenth-century Guthlac Roll. In an especially harrowing episode, the saint is seized ...

Article: Slideshow: Wing helps Glinton girls fly to a fine relay win.
Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England);  March 31, 2007 ;     668 words ... ... 5 George Farmer School; 6 AMVC; 7 St Guthlac's School; 8 Bourne Grammar School; 9 St Guthlac's School B. Junior boys: 1 Stamford Boys ... Grammar School A; 5 AMVC; 6 Jack Hunt; 7 St Guthlac's School; 8 Bourne Grammar School B ...