Saint Cuthman of Steyning

After the death of his father, he provided by the work of his hands for the sustenance of his mother, who was very elderly; he did not even blush to beg in order to have the means to assist her, which obliged him to change his dwelling often. He suffered in a spirit of penance all that was painful and humiliating in his condition.

Being in Steyning Steninges Place of residence, foundation, and initial veneration of the saint. , he built a small hut there to lodge with his mother. The life he led there was more angelic than human. Scarcely had he finished his hut when he drew up the plan for a church, upon which he immediately began to work. The inhabitants of the region, touched by his piety and zeal, provided him with the means to execute his project. The holy man worked all day, and gave a considerable part of the night to prayer.

"Lord," he said, "this is the place of my rest; it is here that I shall come each day to pay you my homage."

God glorified his servant through a great number of miracles, both during his lifetime and after his death. The rel ics of Saint saint Cuthman 9th-century Anglo-Saxon saint, shepherd, and church builder. Cuthman were formerly honored at Steyning. A portion of them was transpor ted to the Abbey abbaye de Fécamp Norman abbey that received relics and lands in Steyning. of Fécamp in N ormandy. Saint Edward the C Saint Édouard le Confesseur King of England and saint who donated Steyning to Fécamp. onfessor gave Steyning to this same abbey. This donation, as well as that of Rye, of Beeding, and of several other neighboring places, made to the Abbey of Fécamp, was confirmed by William the Conquer Guillaume le Conquérant Duke of Normandy and successor to Edward on the English throne. or, by Henry I, and by Henry II, kings of England. The charters of these princes were kept in the archives of the abbey.

The parishes of Steyning and Rye were under the exemption of Fécamp; and when the papal bulls enumerate the parishes that enjoyed the privilege of this exemption, they state, when speaking of those of Steyning and Rye, that they are situated in England. One must not, as some authors do, mistake Hastings, a famous seaport in the province of Sussex, for the Steyning of Féca mp, which is none province de Sussex English county where Steyning is located. other than the town of Steyning, situated in the same province.

Saint Cuthman was formerly the primary patron of Steninges or Esteninges. His name is found in the ancient missal used by the Anglo-Saxons before the Norman conquest of England. This missal was kept at the Abbey of Jumièges. Th ere, on the 8th of abbaye de Jomlèges Monastery led by Hugh and the place of his death. February, one finds a proper mass for the feast of Saint Cuthman. Hickes coun ts the Hickes Scholar and author of the Thesaurus linguarum veterum septentrionalium. shrine of Saint Cuthman among those that the English venerated before their separation from the Roman Church. Our Saint is honored on this day at Fécamp, and was also honored in most of the Benedictine abbeys that were i Bénédictins Religious order occupying the monastery of Honnecourt. n Normandy. He flourished at the end of the 9th century.

See the *Narratio de Sanctis qui in Anglia quiescunt*, which Hickes published in his *Thesaurus l inguarum veterum septentr.*, vol. IV, Thesaurus linguarum veterum septentr. Scholarly work by Hickes mentioning the saint. in disseri. epist., p. 121. See also, in Bollandus, two different lives of Saint Cuthman, and the lessons of the Breviary of Fécamp, which are very accurate.