St. Cuthbert - Patron Saint of Northumbria

Feast Day: 20^th March 

St. Cuthbert was born in Northumbria in AD635. When Cuthbert was around 17 years old he was on the hills of Northumbria when he saw a light shine down and rise back up to the sky again. He believed that the light was accompanying someone's soul up to heaven. He later found out that on that night his good friend Aiden has sadly passed away. Cuthbert believed that what he saw as his calling to become a monk. 

Cuthbert rose through the ranks from a novice to a abbot and helped many people in his time. 

After many years of service, he decided to live a life of a hermit so he moved to Lindisfarne where he prayed deeply. Many people still wanted spiritual adivce and so they would go in boats to find him and ask for help with spiritual healing. 

Iconography:

Cuthbert is often pictured with a duck or another animal. This is because he took care of the eider ducks, native to the Northumbrian coast, during his time living at Lindisfarne. 

Our school library is named of the ducks he used to look after; The Cuddy Duck Library.

The children in each house created a collage in their house colours of St. Cuthbert. This is proudly placed in our school hall.