The Manly Saints Project

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Saint Caedmon

Saint Caedmon

God's Bard

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Hugh Hunter
Feb 11, 2022
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Saint Caedmon
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Name: Caedmon

Status: Saint

Feast Day: 11 February

Lived: Birth date unknown, died around 680 AD

Join me today as we encounter Saint Caedmon, the Saxon herdsman who became a bard, and then a saint.

(Saint Caedmon. Source: Whitby Museum)

We don’t know much about Caedmon’s early life. The first thing we hear about Caedmon is that he was working as a herdsman n…

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