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Article: Young researchers learn about life of St Cuthbert
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- March 27, 2007
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A QUEST to trace the life of a Northern saint took youngsters on a
search either side of the Scottish border.Members of the Mid-Durham
Projects Club, young researchers with special needs, carried out the
18month study to discover the background life story of St
Cuthbert.The early medieval saint was brought up as a shepherd boy in
the Scottish borders, before finding God in a vision while tending
his flock.It led to him joining the monastery at Melrose Abbey, and
subsequently at Holy Island, where he went on to become Bishop of
Lindisfarne, and, following his death, the inspiration behind the
creation of the Lindisfarne Gospels by the monks who survived him.The
anniversary of his death, on ...