Given at the St. Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality, Oxford, on November 6, 2010
Christians far from Egypt have drawn inspiration from the Life of St Antony, including England’s two most popular pre-Conquest hermit saints: Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (c.634-687) and Guthlac (c.673-714) whose hermitage in the fens became the Abbey of Crowland.
Cuthbert, Guthlac and the Life of St Antony
Lecture by Benedicta Ward
Given at the St. Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality, Oxford, on November 6, 2010
Christians far from Egypt have drawn inspiration from the Life of St Antony, including England’s two most popular pre-Conquest hermit saints: Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (c.634-687) and Guthlac (c.673-714) whose hermitage in the fens became the Abbey of Crowland.
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