Event: Advice/counsel, CorrespondenceAlcuin 1.letter to Cuthrad 1 expressing pleasure at his surviving pagan attack

Persons associated with this Event:

• Agent:   Alcuin 1 (Author, deacon and abbot of Tours, c.735-804) : Alcuin 1 lamented at the destruction of the holy places but rejoiced in Cuthrad 1's faith. He urged him to accept the advice of his brethren, whether as a hermit or in a community. He urged Cuthrad 1 to pray for him. He advised him to recommend to brethren who visited him to trust in God's protection and the intercession of St Cuthbert 1.
• Recipient:   Cuthrad 1 (Priest (presumably) of Lindisfarne) : Cuthrad 1 had been spared after falling into the hands of the pagans (Anonymi 1862).
• (Other):   Anonymi 1862 (Pagan people who sacked Lindisfarne in 793)
• (Other):   Cuthbert 1 (Saint; bishop of Hexham, 684-685, and Lindisfarne, 685-687)