2016年9月11日 · There’s a story about the Celtic hermit-monk, St Cuthbert, and a pair of otters, which is very endearing – but whose truth, until recently, I doubted. It’s told by Bede, his biographer and near-contemporary. Cuthbert lived as a monk on Lindisfarne in the 7th century, and soon acquired a reputation of great holiness.

I was assigned the story of St. Cuthbert, the Patron Saint of Otters. After reading the folklore about him and researching the story’s era and region, I experimented with a new style based on the animated movie The Secret of Kells (2009).

Recently, with changing demographics and a decline in the number of available priests, realignments have been made, and St. Martin's Church has now become a mission of Holy Cross Parish. The people of St. Martin's warmly welcome all visitors and newcomers to our community, and invite you to make St. Martin's your spiritual home.

An otter in the New Forest near Southampton, on England’s south coast. Cuthbert spent his life in the Kingdom of Northumbria up in the North East. After growing up near Melrose in the Scottish Borders, he entered a monastery in Ripon before moving back to …

2021年8月19日 · Two remarkable instances are the lives of the Northumbrian St Cuthbert, and the even more remarkable legend of the Father of the Church, St Jerome. These are worth contrasting with our Irish saints. The noted Scottish writer Gavin Maxwell was famous for his books about the otters that lived with him in his West Highland retreat.

The saint stands immersed in the North Sea, his nightly vigil, waves lap his beard, offers prayers of wildness and wakefulness, the moon is a communion wafer floating across sky. He smiles as curious seals swim past, when dawn approaches, birds …

2018年3月22日 · Cuthbert had a pair of otters, who would swim around him while he prayed, who dried his feet and warmed them with their thick otter pelts. So, 15 minutes and more river water, and drench the brush in ink and paint.

2018年12月9日 · St Columba voluntarily banished himself to Iona in 563 when he lost a judgement over a plagiarism incident. He took 12 disciples with him, Otteran being the oldest and therefore the first to die. Columba blesses Derry as he prepares to depart from Iona – from a large stained glass window in St Eugene’s Cathedral, Derry

2024年1月25日 · The “Sea Otter” (19 th to 20 th Century) (bone) is a common North American animal fetish carving found in many of the Alaskan Tlingit, Haida, and American Indian cultures. Beyond their value as food and fur, they were observed to be happy and adorable. Otter carvings were children’s toys. This small amulet was worn on a cord around the neck.

Through the implementation of clean water regulations, furbearer management techniques, and conservation and reintroduction programs, the North American river otter has successfully reclaimed many of these areas.