he eagle
overhead! God can feed us through him if he will"--and once at least he
owed his meal to a fish that the scared bird let fall.

In 664 he was made prior of Lindisfarne. "Gentle with others, he was
severe with himself, and was unsparing in his acts of mortification and
devotion."

In 676 he retired, first to a cave near Howburn, and later to Fame
Island, where he remained in strict seclusion for nine years.

He was elected bishop of Hexham in 684, and with much difficulty was
persuaded to undertake the duties. He soon exchanged Hexham for
Lindisfarne.

As bishop, Cuthbert was diligent in preaching, protected the poor from
their oppressors, lived on very little, and fed and clothed the poor.

Towards the end of 686 he gave up his bishopric and returned to his
beloved Fame Island, where he died in March 687.

ST. CUTHBERT

1. Her Cuthbert was forbid layks and plays
As S. Bede i' hys story says.

2. Her the angel did hym eale
And made hys grievous sore to hele.

3. Her saw he Aydan's sawl up go
to hevyn bliss w^{th} angels two.

4. Her to hym and hys palfray
God send hem fude in hys jornay.

5. Her on Melross for to converse
W^{th} h[~y] Bosle and laws reherse.

6. The angel he did as gest refreshe
With met and drynk and hys fete weshe

7. Her Basel told hy yt he must de
And after yt bysshop should be

8. Her to hys breder and pepyl eke
He preched godys word myld and mek

9. Her stude he naked in y^e see
till all David psalms sayd had he.

10. He was gydyd by ye egle fre
And fed w^{th} ye delfyne as ye see

11. Fresh water god sent owt of ye ston
to hym in Farn and befor was noon

12. Consecrate byshop yai made h[~y] her
off Lyndisfarne both far and nere.

13. Her by prayers fendys out Farne glad
and w^{th} angel h[~a]ds hys hous made

14. To thys child god grace (here gave) he
Thro hys prayers as ye may se.

15. Byshop two yerys when he had beyn
In Farne he died both holy and clene

16. The crowys yt did his hous unthek
This for full low fell at hys fete

17. xi yere after yt beryd was he
Yai fan hym hole as red may ye.

St. Anthony, one of the primitive hermits, and the founder of
monasticism, was born at Coma, in Upper Egypt, in A.D. 251. Before he
was twenty years old he lost his parents, and inherited great riches
from them,