St. Drithelm

Drithelm
Feastday: August 17
Death: 700

A wealthy man of Northumbria, England, who supposedly died, experienced a powerful vision of heaven, hell, and purgatory, and then was found to be alive. He divided his possessions among his wife and children and made benefices for the poor before becoming a monk at Melrose Abbey. He lived as a hermit there with great austerities. St. Bede gives an account of his life.

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Drithelm Drithelm Death: 700
Death: 700