st cuthbert
8th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1905 Brian Coffey (Irish poet)
Died:
1996 Michael Fox (actor)
On This Day:
793 Vikings plunder St Cuthbert’s monastery on the island of Lindisfarne
Have a good Thursday, 8th June
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St Cuthbert
The amazing life of St Cuthbert – celebrated last night in his final resting place at Durham Cathedral.
On Lindisfarne, they say,
St Cuthbert took a hooded crow,
A jackdaw and a jay,
And on their strident tongues bestowed
The gift of harmony.
No more did ugly croaks and caws
– Alan Ireland
http://www.aromaticcoffees.co.uk
Dispute above the sea,
Or trouble those sequestered shores.
They sang all day, those three;
And as they drew their corvine kin,
The devil wept to see
His shrinking nursery of sin.
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