Herbert von Derwent Water

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Herbert von Derwent Water († March 20, 687 ) was an Anglo-Saxon monk and hermit who is venerated as a saint. The Doctor of the Church Beda Venerabilis reports on the life of Herbert von Derwent Water, about whom we only know that he was a friend and student of Cuthbert von Lindisfarne .

Life

Herbert visited Cuthbert regularly every year at Lindisfarne for spiritual instruction. In 686, however, Cuthbert was in Carlisle to ordain Queen Eomenburg, the widow of King Ecgfrith of Northumbria , who had recently fallen in the war . Herbert therefore met Cuthbert in Carlisle. Cuthbert, who had already correctly foreseen the death of the king in a vision, told Herbert at this meeting in Carlisle that this would be their last meeting, Herbert should tell him everything and ask him anything else he wanted, because he, Cuthbert, would to die. Herbert then asked that they both appear before God at the same time. After a prayer, Cuthbert assured Herbert that this wish would be granted. Herbert left Cuthbert and fell seriously ill on his return to his hermitage. He died on March 20, 687 on the same day as Cuthbert. His feast day therefore coincides with the Cuthberts.

Adoration

Thomas Appleby, the Bishop of Carlisle, ordered in 1374 that the Vicar of Crosthwaite should hold mass in his hermitage on April 13th each year, and granted a 40-day indulgence to everyone who attended that mass . Today, the Our Lady of the Lakes and St Charles parish in Keswick organizes an annual pilgrimage to St. Herbert, which takes place in summer because of the better weather.

St Herberts Church at Chadderton is the patronage of St. Reported to Herbert von Derwentwater. The parish has been making a pilgrimage to the hermitage of the saint every March since 1983.

hermitage

Friars Crag

Herbert chose an island in Derwent Water known as St. Herbert's Island as the location for his hermitage . ( 54 ° 35 ′  N , 3 ° 9 ′  W ) Remains of the hermitage can still be seen on the island. Remains of a roughly six-meter-long building are considered to be the former chapel, while a significantly smaller building is considered to be living space. On the island there is now a small grotto built by the owner of the island, Wilfrid Lawson, which is known as the "New Hermitage". A promontory on the east bank of Derwent Water is known as Friars Crag. ( 54 ° 35 ′ 25 ″  N , 3 ° 8 ′ 27.3 ″  W ) This is said to be the point from which monks crossed to the island.

Mention in the literature

William Wordsworth wrote the dedication For the spot where the hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwentwater for the island. Beatrix Potter mentions St. Herbert's Island in the story of the squirrel Nutkin, in which the character Old Brown sails to Owl Island. In Melvyn Bragg's novel Credo , set in 7th century England, Herbert von Derwentwater appears as "Erebert".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia after Acta SS., March 20, III, 110, 123, 142-43; BEDE, Historia Ecclesiastica, IV, xxix, in Mon. Hist. Brit., 245; RAINE, Saint Cuthbert (Durham, 1828), 32-33; RAINE in Dict. Christian. Biog. sv; STANTON, Menology of England and Wales (London, 1887), 127-8. (Record by Beda Venerabilis)
  2. ↑ a b Derwentwater’s Holy Island ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Our Lady of the Lakes and St Joseph Keswick Ward website, accessed April 9, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.keswickcatholicchurch.co.uk
  3. ↑ a b St Herbert and his Island ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Our Lady of the Lakes and St Joseph Keswick Ward website, accessed April 9, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.keswickcatholicchurch.co.uk
  4. ↑ Website of the parish of St. Herberts in Chadderton ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.st-herberts-chadderton-uk.org
  5. ↑ a b Uniquely Derwentwater on the Lake District National Park website, accessed April 9, 2015
  6. ^ The Complete Poetical Works, by William Wordsworth ... With an introduction by John Morley. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888.
personal data
SURNAME Herbert von Derwent Water
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglo-Saxon monk and hermit
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century or 7th century
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 687