Subjects

Lives of the Saints

in The Copy Book

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79

Cuthbert and the Iron Grip

A boy goes bird-nesting in Cuthbert’s church, and finds himself all in a heap.

80

Cuthbert and the Wry Face

A man who seems to have everything loses his good looks to a dreadful disease.

81

Cuthbert, the Eagle and the Fish

St Cuthbert reminds a young monk that the labourer is worthy of her hire.

82

‘I can walk’

A mother is determined to see that her disabled daughter gets the help she needs.

83

The Vision of St Fursey

Fursey was a 7th-century Irish monk whose visions of the afterlife made a great impression on St Bede.

84

Stone Tablets and a Golden Calf

Even as Moses is in the presence of God receiving the Ten Commandments, the people down below are already breaking the first of them.