Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1889 — The Ungallant St. Cuthbert. [ARTICLE]

The Ungallant St. Cuthbert.

St. Cuthbert, that out and out woman hater, would have no female creature about his place in Lindisfarne, not suffering even a cow, saying, “Where there was a cow there must be a woman, and where there was a woman there must be mischief.” In i'he cathedral at Durham, dedicated to him, a black cross in the pavement marked the spot beyond which no woman was allowed to pass. In 1333 Edward 111. and his queen went to the priory at Durham, where they lodged together. In the middle of the night a monk broke rudely into their room, saying to ,the queen that St. Cuthbert loved not her sex, and that she must up and go. The queen tumbled out of bed, undressed as she was, and spent the rest of the night in the church, praying for pardon to the patron saint whom she had offended. In 1417 two servant girls dressed as men and “impiously approached the saint’s shrine,” to he severely handled by the authorities. —Fortnightly Review.