7

Cuthbert and Hildemer’s Wife

By Clay Lane

Cuthbert’s friend comes asking for a priest to attend his dying wife — so long as it isn’t Cuthbert.

8

A Tale of Two Springs

By Clay Lane

The way St Cuthbert found water for his island retreat confirmed that Northumbria’s church was the real thing.

9

Cuthbert and the Barley Reivers

By Clay Lane

Bede is reminded of another great Christian saint when St Cuthbert shoos some troublesome crows from his barley crop.

10

Cuthbert and the Sorrowful Ravens

By Clay Lane

The Northumbrian monk was touched by two thieving birds who repented of their misdeeds.

11

On Holy Ground

By Clay Lane

A traveller went into a Shropshire pub looking for information about a patch of grass with peculiar properties.

12

The Consecration of Bishop Cuthbert

By St Bede of Jarrow

Cuthbert would not go to King Ecgfrith, so King Ecgfrith and his entire court had to go to Cuthbert.