ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 6th of May WELCOME! SAINT EADBERT, BISHOP Venerable Bede assures us, that Saint Eadbert excelled both in the knowledge of the holy scriptures, and in the observance of the divine precepts. All his life-time he was remarkable for his alms-deeds, and it was a law with him to lay aside yearly the tenth part of his goods for the poor. BISHOP OF LINDISFARNE He was ordained successor to Saint Cuthbert , in the see of Lindisfarne, in 687, and most worthily governed that church eleven years. It was his custom twice a year in Lent, and during forty days before Christmas, to retire into a solitary place, encompassed by the waters of the sea, where Saint Cuthbert had for some time served God in private before he went to the isle of Ferne. Saint Eadbert spent this time remote from all company, in abstinence, prayers, and tears. ST CUTHBERT'S BODY WAS FOUND TO BE INCORRUPT Saint Cuthbert had been buried ...