St. Cedd was the eldest of four holy brothers, born
into a noble Northumbrian family at the beginning of the 7th century. With his
siblings, Cynebil, Caelin & (St.) Chad, he entered the school at
Lindisfarne Priory at an early age and learnt the ways of the Irish monks under
Bishop Aidan. They were eventually sent to Ireland for further study and all
four subsequently became priests...
He was born
to a prominent noble family, the Ui-Niall clan of
Ireland, but he forsook all worldly
things and became a monk at a young age. He founded the monasteries of Derry
and Durrow, and traveled as a missionary in
Ireland for almost twenty years...
He died in
576.
Constantine was a king of
Cornwall,
the son of Padeon, whose conversion probably dates from a confrontation with
St. Petroc who was sheltering a stag which had taken refuge with him from
Constantine's huntsmen…
'Saint
Cuthbert was born in
Britain
about the year 635, and became a monk in his youth at the monastery of
Melrose by the River
Tweed. After many years of struggle as a true priest of Christ, in the service
both of his own brethren and of the neglected Christians of isolated country
villages, he became a solitary on
FarneIsland in 676…
St.
Cuthburga was the daughter of Prince Coenred, a second-cousin of Caedwalla,
King of Wessex. Her brothers were St. Ine, King of Wessex and Ingild,
great-great-grandfather of Egbert,
the first King of the English, and direct ancestor of Alfred the Great. Her sisters were St. Cwenburga, Edburga and Tata…
He was born around 681 possibly in Devon or Cornwall, or more probably in Chidham near Bosham, about 25 miles from Steyning. His life was one of simple filial piety and charity...
Saints of the British Isles 
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