Solemnities, Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials, and Traditional Dates of Commemoration
- Photina and Companions, martyrs
- Martin of Braga, bishop
- Cuthbert, bishop
- Herbert, priest
- Wulfram, bishop
- The Martyrs of Mar Saba [1]
Today the Catholic Church commemorates 2 groups of martyrs, 3 bishops, and 1 priest.
There are two Saints mentioned in this roster that lived in the same era and also worked together: St. Cuthbert and St. Herbert. Venerable Bede, a well-known writer and doctor of the Church, wrote that St. Cuthbert was a Briton (other sources say he may have been a Scot or even Irish).
St. Cuthbert (d. ca. 687 A.D.) became a monk at Melrose Abbey. He did missionary work and was transferred to become prior of Lindisfarne. Before he was made bishop of the see in Lindisfarne, he received permission to live as a hermit in an island near Bamborough.
Living as a hermit on an island may have been the time when he also worked with St. Herbert (d. ca. 687). Herbert, who became Cuthbert's disciple, was a priest and lived on an island in Lake Derwentwater, England. This island was thereafter named St. Herbert's Island in his honor.
In about the year 685 A.D., St. Cuthbert was busy in administering the see of Lindisfarne and cared for the sick that decimated the population of his diocese. He did this in the last two years of his life before his death in ca. 687 A.D. St. Cuthbert was known for working numerous miracles of healing and for having the gift of prophecy [2].
More on the lives of the Saints commemorated on March 20
Saints in the Byzantine Calendar [March 20]
- Martyrs of the Monastery of St. Sabbas [2]
References: Books, Websites & AI Search Results
- [1] Pocket Catholic Dictionary, John A. Hardon
- [2] Dictionary of Saints, John J. Delaney
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