- Æthelwold of Farne
Saint Æthelwold of Farne (also spelled Aethelwald, Ethilwold, etc) was a late 7th century
hermit who lived on Inner Farne, off the coast of the English county ofNorthumberland .Little is known about this man, apart from what is recorded in the writings of the Venerable
Bede . Æthelwold was both apriest and amonk from Ripon Abbey. Being desirous of some solitude, he succeeded to the tiny hermitage of Saint Cuthbert on Farne, after the latter's death in 687. He, however, found it so drafty that he was obliged to make much needed repairs using a calf-skin. The most well-known story about Æthelwold, relates how the future Abbot Guthrid visited him on his island with twoLindisfarne monks and, on his journey home, was saved from shipwreck by the saint's prayers. Æthelwold died on23 March 699 (not 720 as is sometimes stated). He was buried with Cuthbert and, like him, was eventually enshrined inDurham Cathedral .References
*Farmer, David Hugh. (1978). "The Oxford Dictionary of Saints". Oxford: Oxford University Press
External links
* [http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/adversaries/bios/aethelwoldfarne.html Early British Kingdoms: St. Aethelwold of Farne]
* [http://www.newmanreader.org/works/saints/edelwald.html Newman Reader: History of St. Edelwald]
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