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In his earliest youth, when blessed Cuthbert 1 was watching over his lord [Anonymous 10129’s] flocks near the river that is called the Leader, he prayed in spirit to the Lord, as was his habit from infancy and continued to be for as long as he remained living among men. Moreover, it was also ever his custom to enter the coldest water in secret and at his own sole discretion. And this was the first miracle divinely granted to him, that while his companions [Anonymi 10063] were sleeping and he was watching over the flocks and praying, positioned in the shape of the cross, he saw the soul of St Aidan 1, bishop of Lindisfarne, being carried off to heaven by angels. As soon as morning had come, no longer wanting to tend the flocks, he returned [them] to his lord [Anonymous 10129] and went to the monastery called Melrose and fell with great devotion at the feet of saintly Abbot Boisil 1 and diligently described to him everything he had seen concerning the soul of the saintly bishop, and immediately, with his head crowned in the tonsure, he was made a monk, and thereafter he faithfully observed both the contemplative and active ways of living to the end of his own life. |
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