Saint Drithelm
- Also known as
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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 monk at Melrose, Scotland.
Bede writes of him in his History; see below.
- Born
- Northumbrian
- Died
- c.700 of natural causes
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Additional Information
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Catholic Online
Kirken i Norge [norwegian]
Ecclesiastical History of England, by the Venerable Bede
- Print References
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints
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