Herebert

Also known as: Brother Herebert · Role: priest and anchorite · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XXIX

Life events

c. 684 · Cuthbert foretold that he and Herebert would not meet again in life.(Book IV · Chap. XXIX · 📍 Lugubalia)
- With: Cuthbert
- “when we part, we shall never again see one another with bodily eyesight in this world. For I know of a surety that the time of my departure is at hand”
c. 684 · Cuthbert and Herebert died on the same day and were united in the heavenly vision.(Book IV · Chap. XXIX)
- With: Cuthbert
- “their spirits quitting their bodies on one and the same day, to wit, the 20th of March, were immediately united in fellowship in the blessed vision”

friends with Cuthbert “There was a certain priest, called Herebert, a man of holy life, who had long been united with the man of God, Cuthbert, in the bonds of spiritual friendship.”
mentor: Cuthbert “This man leading a solitary life in the island of that great lake from which the river Derwent flows at its beginning, was wont to visit him every year, and to receive from him the teaching of everlasting salvation.”
with Cuthbert (They departed together and were united in fellowship after death.) “But their spirits quitting their bodies on one and the same day, to wit, the 20th of March, were immediately united in fellowship in the blessed vision, and together translated to the heavenly kingdom by the ministry of angels.”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.