ABSTRACT
St. Cuthbert’s years of travel after death were so like his wandering when alive that they must have seemed like a new manifestation of him. There is the physical background of Cuthbert, the isolation of Lindisfarne and the glory of Durham. Like the infant Samuel, Cuthbert, born in the very same year as the foundation of his future see, seems always to have had about him an aura of the co-incidental or the miraculous. It is strange that among all the writings of Bede, who outlived Cuthbert by forty-eight years, there is no mention of Biscop and Cuthbert having met. Cuthbert called on God to prove his innocence; there was a hissing noise and the earth swallowed up the girl. These are only a few of the countless occasions when Cuthbert’s dislike of women was demonstrated. The ‘patrimonium Sancti Cuthberti’ was soundly organized, with nothing to bring in question the prince bishops’ rights.
