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  EBK: St. Guthlac
Guthlac was the son of Penwald, a minor prince from the Royal Mercian House of Icling, and his wife, Tette.
For nine years, Guthlac carried on with this thoughtless way of life until, one night, he had a heavenly dream that instilled him with love and compassion for his fellow man. He made an oath to dedicate his life to the service of the Lord and, in the morning, bade his companions farewell.
Guthlac's servant, Beccel, was shaving him one day, when he was seized by a desire to cut his master's throat and install himself in his cell, that he might instead be honoured by the locals as a holyman.
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 Saints in Repton
As a boy he was inspired by the valiant deeds of heroes of old; he served in the army of Aethelred of Mercia for eight or nine years, gaining war-booty and attracting followers from many parts of the country.
On several occasions Guthlac was rescued from demons by St Bartholomew, to whom he had a special devotion.
Guthlac's relics were associated with miracles and his tomb soon became a centre of pilgrimage.
www.reptonchurch.org.uk /Saints.htm   (472 words)

  
 The Power of Music in Medieval Literature -- Brenda Johnstone Flynn
It is not until Guthlac has accomplished his mission as a warrior that he even considers changing his lifestyle: "Their [his enemies] strength was so sapped at length, after suffering so much pillage and plunder and slaughter at his hands, that they were exhausted and kept the peace perforce" (Felix 177).
Had Guthlac been cured of his depression simply by singing the psalm, we could attribute his healing to the effect of the music upon him, as was true with David's singing for Saul.
Guthlac immediately responds with what we now have come to expect: "Finally in answer he began stoutheartedly to sing, as though in prophecy, the words of the psalm, 'The Lord is at my right hand, that I be not moved' [Ps.
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 Saint Guthlac Information
Saint Guthlac of Croyland (683-714) was a Christian saint from Lincolnshire in England.
Guthlac was the son of Penwald, a noble of the English kingdom of Mercia, and his wife Tette.
Guthlac is also described here as "pleasant of form and pure and clean in his disposition, and innocent in his ways".
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Saint_Guthlac   (1798 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Guthlac
Guthlac's friend, assures him that whatever he has written, he had derived immediately from old and intimate companions of the saint.
Guthlac was born of noble stock, in the land of the Middle Angles.
Guthlac sickened and announced that he should die on the seventh day, which he did joyfully.
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 St. Guthlac
Our authority for the life of St. Guthlac is the monk Felix (of what monastery is not known), who in his dedication of the "Life" to King Æthelbald, Guthlac's friend, assures him that whatever he has written, he had derived immediately from old and intimate companions of the saint.
Guthlac, after his death, in a vision to Æthelbald, revealed to him that he should one day become king.
During Holy Week of 714, Guthlac sickened and announced that he should die on the seventh day, which he did joyfully.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/g/guthlac,saint.html   (499 words)

  
 Brenda Johnstone Flynn: The Power of Music in Medieval Literature
It is not until Guthlac has accomplished his mission as a warrior that he even considers changing his lifestyle: "Their [his enemies'] strength was so sapped at length, after suffering so much pillage and plunder and slaughter at his hands, that they were exhausted and kept the peace perforce" (Felix 177).
Guthlac's new armaments are literacy and chanting, and wholly replace the sword and spear.
Guthlac immediately responds with what we now have come to expect: "Finally in answer he began stoutheartedly to sing, as though in prophecy, the words of the psalm, 'The Lord is at my right hand, that I be not moved' [Ps.
www.voskrese.info /spl/BJFguthlac.html   (3467 words)

  
 FAITH OF OUR FATHERS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Guthlac arrived there in around 690 to colonise an island in the heavily wooded region cut off by marsh and river.
The story of Guthlac is one of heroic struggle; of the necessity to "fight against sin;.
In Christ's strength Guthlac won a great victory; his hermitage became a place of counsel for bishops and kings; it marked a new colonisation of the fens; his island became a new Eden where he talked to the birds and fed fish from his hands,
trushare.com /44JAN99/ja99fafa.htm   (517 words)

  
 St. Guthlac   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When he was 24 Guthlac was suddenly filled with the Holy Spirit and laid down his arms.
Eventually Guthlac won the monks over, but he was drawn to a solitary life and left the monastery to live in the wilderness.
Guthlac is said to have never turned anyone away without giving assistance to them.
www.homefaith.com /webcal_files/955064241.html   (139 words)

  
 St Guthlac's Church, Knighton
Guthlac however soon began to realise that the life of solitude that he had wanted to lead was not going to last as the local people came to him constantly as his faith could cure them of many illnesses.
Guthlac was laid to rest in the soil of his special island, fifteen years after his arrival there.
St Guthlac is not one of the most well known saints but he has had and still does have a special place as our patron, for those in the eleven churches named for him.
homepage.ntlworld.com /huntandco/abstg.htm   (553 words)

  
 §10. "Guthlac, The Phoenix, Physiologus, Riddles". IV. Old English Christian Poetry. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings ...
Of these, the longest is the life of the Mercian saint Guthlac.
It falls into two parts, the first, apparently, having been composed during the lifetime of the anchorite who is the subject of the poem, the second being based upon the Latin Vita by Felix of Croyland.
The death of Guthlac is related in lines full of strength and beauty.
www.bartleby.com /211/0410.html   (1276 words)

  
 hermit's thatch: Hermits and hagiography
The teaching of virtue must be done in a careful manner appealing to logic and intuition, not left to chance with such stories, but religion around the world has always enjoyed an element of saint-mongering.
We know from other sources that Guthlac became a monk and in his last fifteen years was a hermit in a desolate sector of Croyland, Lincolnshire.
Guthlac and other hermits are folded into the profile of saints typical in medieval hagiography.
www.hermitary.com /archives/000540.html   (530 words)

  
 St Guthlac and St Pega, Hermits   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Guthlac's heroic sanctity is described in terms reminiscent of Beowulf and would have been of interest to the laity.
Guthlac is a hero in terms of both the monastic and the secular heroic traditions.
Much material about Guthlac and Pega must have been lost at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, although antiquarians in the nineteenth century made important discoveries about the cult of Guthlac, which are relevant to the examination of his legend.
www.umilta.net /pega.html   (2140 words)

  
 The Antiochian Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom and Ireland
When he was dying, Guthlac sent for his sister, Saint Pega, who was a hermitess in the same neighbourhood (Peakirk or Pega's church).
In art, Saint Guthlac is depicted holding a scourge in his hand and a serpent at his feet.
Father Guthlac you followed the ways of the prophet Elijah,/ and the straight path of the Forerunner./ You became a dweller in the cisterns of Croyland/ and in that wilderness brought forth fruit an hundredfold both conquering the demons and healing the sick./ Intercede with Christ our God that our souls may be saved.
www.antiochian-orthodox.co.uk /lincolnshire_paterikon_april.htm   (1728 words)

  
 New booklet on St Guthlac published
It is in three parts, the first gives information about the times in which Guthlac lived, 1300 years ago, and how we know about him.
The next part is a summary of his life story taken from a translation of the book by his first biographer, written within 35 years of his death.
This consists of reproductions from the eighteen roundels of the 800 year old Guthlac Roll, currently housed in the British Museum, together with descriptions of the scenes and background information.
www.rutnet.co.uk /pp/pressrelease/pressdetail.asp?id=2842   (127 words)

  
 April 11th
Guthlac, hermit, patron of the abbey of Croyland, 716.
Guthlac, one of the most interesting of the old Saxon anchorets, we have a good biography by a nearly contemporary monk named Felix.
From this it appears that the saint was at first devoted to warlike enterprises, but after a time was moved to devote himself wholly to a contemplative religious life in Croyland Isle in the fen countries.
www.thebookofdays.com /months/april/11.htm   (1874 words)

  
 St. Pachomius Library   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Attacked by Britons and tempted by demons, Guthlac was rescued by St. Bartholomew, to whom he had a special devotion.
The fish and the birds (except the crows, who were the most abundant birds in the area) loved St. Guthlac, who died in 714.
A vellum roll, called the Guthlac roll, is a pictorial biography of the saint.
www.voskrese.info /spl/Xguthlac.html   (187 words)

  
 St. Guthlac   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The little town of Crowland stands in the Fens east of Peterborough and its famous 'three-way' medieval bridge, standing in the town centre over what is now dry land serves as a reminder that this was once a true water-town, a miniature Fenland Venice.
His cult was spread by Kings and Archbishops alike; the abbey of Crowland was built round his cell, with his jewel-laden shrine at its centre.
Along with St. Cuthbert in the North, Guthlac ensured that the life of the solitary, praying hermit was taken seriously, and that the hermit was seen as a powerful intercessor for the needs of those at work in the world.
www.hullp.demon.co.uk /SacredHeart/saint/StGuthlac.htm   (179 words)

  
 St Guthlac and St Pega, Hermits   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Despite its limited area, Guthlac's cult was important throughout the Middle Ages, and his legend kept developing through the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century when the latest manuscript of the South English Legendary that includes a Life of Guthlac was copied (see Bolton, 170-71).
The Legendary's version of the Life of Guthlac exists in only three manuscripts because, as Görlach says, the Legendary "is connected with areas outside the restricted area of the Guthlac cult" (159), and is in neither modern edition from EETS.
I believe that the three versions of the Guthlac material show the signs of oral transmission and that they are the type of work whose source was literate and Latin but which was composed orally in the vernacular.
www.umilta.net /guthlac.html   (2043 words)

  
 St Guthlac, Market Deeping
St Guthlac, an Anglo Saxon hermit, came to the Island of Crowland from the Monastery ay Repton in 669 A.D. Formerly a soldier of fortune, he had then dedicated his life to religious study, counselling and solitude.
The present church was built in the early part of the 13th century, replacing an earlier smaller one.
These roundels are a copy of the seven hundred year old St Guthlac Roll, now to be seen on request, at the British Museum.
members.tripod.com /~DerekEaris/guthch.htm   (1037 words)

  
 The Ecole Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Born into the tribe of Guthlacingas and probably related to the royal house of Mercia, St. Guthlac (c.
In 701, Guthlac also became an anchorite on an island in the marshes of Lincolnshire.
Attacked by Britons and tempted by demons, Guthlac was rescued by St.
www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/guthlac.html   (180 words)

  
 St Guthlac   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A young man named Guthlac, who was a soldier and the son of a Mercian nobleman called Penwald and his wife Tette, had decided to give up the military life for the habit of a monk.
The story of Guthlac's life is told by his biographer, the monk Felix, who was almost his contemporary, and is illustrated in the Guthlac Roll.
Guthlac gained a reputation for holiness of life, and was visited by many people in search of spiritual counsel.
croylandabbey.co.uk /page4.html   (442 words)

  
 St Guthlac, Market Deeping
St Guthlac is the Parish Church of Market Deeping, the most southerly town in Lincolnshire with its sister community of Deeping St James.
The River Welland runs through the town and was the river that St Guthlac came down in the 7th century to live in the wild and desolate fen at Crowland.
There are ten churches dedicated to St Guthlac, all of which are members of the Guthlac Fellowship.
members.tripod.com /~DerekEaris/guthlac.htm   (130 words)

  
 Saints of early England   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Not only that, but understanding also the universal human phenomenon of religion, with large areas of commonality, including a devotion to holy persons which is found widely from one culture to another.
The Guthlac roll: an illustration (though late) of the Life.
Guthlac and his legacy: including aspects of religional identity such as the name of Guthlaxton wapentake, that part of Leicestershire immediately south of the city.
www.le.ac.uk /elh/grj1/ass.html   (704 words)

  
 Akathist to our Holy Father Guthlac
At the end of thy life, O holy Guthlac, thou was granted to know the time of thy death, and having received Christ in the Divine Mysteries at Paschaltide, thou didst prepare thy soul for Heaven.
Orators find it impossible to describe thy life of holiness with their many and eloquent words, O holy Guthlac, for thou didst become an island for the power of the ineffable God amidst a sea of sin.
O beloved Father Guthlac, whilst on earth thou didst see the future as if present, distant things as if near, the hearts and minds of men as if they were thine own.
www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk /akaguth.htm   (2314 words)

  
 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 11
At age 24, he renounced both violence and the life of the world and became a monk in an Benedictine double abbey at Repton, which was ruled by an abbess named Elfrida.
Guthlac told him, "Those who choose to live apart from other humans become the friends of wild animals; and the angels visit them, too- -for those who are often visited by men and women are rarely visited by angels."
Guthlac's vita was recorded in Latin by his near contemporary Felix.
www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0411.htm   (2080 words)

  
 - Chapter 5
Rykermann was telling Guthlac things he knew already, but Guthlac let him speak on.
He knew one terrible thing Rykermann might be referring to when he spoke of organ banks and apparently it still helped him to talk.
By that time we were beginning to fear sabotage of the war effort by pacifists and would-be quislings in Sol system.
www.baen.com /chapters/W200510/1416509062___5.htm   (2624 words)

  
 Parish Church of St Guthlac
St Guthlac's is a member of Deepings Churches Together.
It is also a member of the St Guthlac Fellowship ~ a group of Churches which are dedicated to St Guthlac.
The Fellowship is a group of churches, which are dedicated to St Guthlac.
www.deepingsonline.co.uk /stguthlacs   (474 words)

  
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The Literary Use of Formulas in Guthlac II and Their Relation to Felix's Vita Sancti Guthlaci.
Thundy, Zacharias P. "The Potion in Guthlac B and the Tristan Romances." Tristania 4 (1978): 56-62.
Wentersdorf, Karl P. "Guthlac A: The Battle for the Beorg." Neophilologus 62 (1978): 135-42.
www.lib.uconn.edu /~klaity/biblio.htm   (1635 words)

  
 hermits ... around the web: Guthlac, Medieval Hermit   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Little is known about St. Guthlac except a standard hagiography.
He lived in late seventh-early eighth century England, and is held as a model of saintly eremiticism in later English resources.
A compact narrative and bibliography on Guthlac and his sister Pega is assembled at Umilta, an Italian Web site in (occasionally broken) English devoted to a handful of English and Italian saints.
www.hermitary.com /around/archives/000043.html   (99 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Saint Pega of Peakirk
Lived as a hermit in the Fens, Northhamptonshire, England near her brother.
Once the devil took on her form to persuade Guthlac to break his vow to never eat before sunset.
Saint Guthlac and Saint Pega in the South English Legendary, by Alexandra Olsen
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintp1t.htm   (116 words)

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