Subjects

Bible and Saints

Passages of history, wonder and spiritual counsel, drawn from the Bible and from the lives of the saints and martyrs, with a special attention to those of the British isles.

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Cuthbert’s Cordon

A man steals a mother sparrow from her chick, but St Cuthbert isn’t going to let him get away with it.

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Cuthbert and the Iron Grip

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

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Cuthbert and the Wry Face

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

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Cuthbert, the Eagle and the Fish

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

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‘I can walk’

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

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The Vision of St Fursey

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