Cuthbert becomes prior of a monastery at …
Years: 671 - 671
Cuthbert becomes prior of a monastery at Melrose, Scotland, that he had entered in 651 as a teenager.
He moves in 664 to Lindisfarne, an island off England’s northeast coast, and becomes prior at the abbey there.
After some years here, he elects to live as a hermit on the nearby island of Farne.
