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St Cuthbert’s ‘Life’ by Bede: part I
St Cuthbert, from BL Yates Thompson MS 26, f. 1v Today, 20th March, is the feast day of St Cuthbert (c. 634-687), the Anglo-Saxon monk, bishop and hermit. The Catholic tradition is to celebrate a...
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St Cuthbert’s ‘Life’ by Bede: Part II
BL Yates Thompson MS 26, f.17 From Ch 7 of Bede’s Life of Cuthbert: It chanced that Cuthbert was appointed to the office of receiving strangers, and he is said to have entertained an angel of the...
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Snakes, martyr medics and holy shrinks. The Holy Unmercenaries, Agioi Anargyroi
This summer I had a short holiday in SE Cyprus, near to where I’d lived as a child when my dad was stationed there during his army days. I can barely remember that time, apart from attending my first...
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Holy Unmercenaries/Agioi Anargyroi, pt II
Royal Soc. of Medicine coat of arms, Cosmas and Damian supporting (from the RSM website): see penultimate paragraph below In my last post I wrote about the Agioi Anargyroi – the Holy Unmercenaries –...
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Ancient dogs and caltrops
A Paean to Dogs in Ancient Times Domesticated from earliest times in Greece and Italy as hunters of wild goats, deer and hares, dogs also served humans as guardians of the house and stock and as...
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