Feast of Saint Cædmon c. CE 657–684 who is the first English (Northumbrian) poet whose name is known. A deeply committed Celtic-monk who cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (Whitby Abbey), then under the leadership of Saint Hilda.
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An unlettered cowherd, he received the miraculous gift of translating scripture into verse in a dream. Afterward, he became a monk.