Feast day: March 20
St. Cuthbert
The great saint of Northumbria — shepherd, monk, miracle-worker, and reluctant bishop — who loved the wild solitude of the Farne Islands and the sea birds there.
He set up some of the earliest bird-protection laws in the world to guard the eider ducks of the Farne Islands, still called 'Cuddy's ducks.'
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