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Why Is St. Wilfrid So Popular ?
Page 6 from 9th October 1959By F. C. PRICE O N October 12 it will be 1250 years since St. Wilfrid died at the monastery of Oundle in Northamptonshire, a monastery he had......
Early Church Tensions
Page 6 from 11th August 1972r is of the genius of Christianity that, given the chance, it will grow anywhere. Anglo-Saxon England in its midland district was described by an......
Power Lines To God
Page 7 from 18th July 2003The Lindisfarne gospels are witnesses to the past which help us question the present, says Michelle P Brown I n 597 St Augustine arrived at the......
Cardinal Thanks God For Synod Men Of Hertford
Page 2 from 1st June 1973By a Staff Reporter Pitying themselves because they lived in irreligious times, people today imagined AngloSaxon Britain as a peaceful haven —......
Bede: The Blessings Of Staying At Home
Page 7 from 29th August 1997In an era of frantic travel, EDWARD P ECHLIN praises a saintly figure who stayed at home but changed the world s pent his entire life at Tyneside.......
Pope Praises European Role Of Medieval English Saint
Page 2 from 27th February 2009BY ANNA ARCO POPE BENEDICT xv I turned his thoughts to England, last week when he praised the Northumbrian scholar Saint Bede for helping to......
Saint Of The Week
Page 14 from 16th February 2007St Colman (February 18) ST COLMAN (died 676) was the leader of the Celtic delegation at the Synod of Whitby (664), where he debated with St......
Unifier Of The Church
Page 8 from 10th August 1979THEODORE (c 602 - 90) is usually reckoned to he the most important Archbishop of Canterbury between Augustine and Dunstan. His achievement was to......
Brightest Of Northumbr Ia's Many Lights
Page 6 from 22nd March 1974Star of the North: The Life of the Venerable Bede by K. Parbury (Frank Graham 75P) This is a popular introduction to the life of the great......
Saint Of The Week
Page 18 from 9th October 2009St Wilfrid (October 12) W ilfrid (634709) is remembered as the champion of the Roman cause at the Synod of Whitby (664), when it was decided to......