Saint Drithelm

Also known as

• Drithelm Cuningham
• Drithelm of Northumbria
• Dritham of Melrose

Memorial

• 17 August

Profile

Wealthy and pious layman, a husband and father. Following a terrifying vision of the afterlife during a near-death experience during an epidemic in 696, he became a hermit and then monk at Melrose, Scotland. Bede writes of him in his History (see link below).

Born

• Northumbria, England

Died

• c.700 at Melrose, Scotland of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Drithelm Cunningham of Northumbria’s Vision, by the Venerable Bede
• Kirken i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Drithelm”. Saints.SQPN.com. 18 November 2012. Web. 22 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-drithelm/>