Reginald of Durham

Reginald of Durham (fl. 1162 - 1173) was an English monk and hagiologist.

Reginald, a monk at Durham, was a hagiologist who wrote about the lives of saints. His best known work is about the hermit Saint Godric of Finchale. He also wrote about the 7th century Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, about Saint Oswald, a 7th century marytred King of Northumbria, and about the life of St Ebba (d.? AD 679), daughter of the King of Northumbria who founded a monastery at Ebchester. Ebba was the abbess of a mixed monastery of monks and nuns at Coldingham, which was burned down in AD 679 as a divine punishment on the disorderly life of its inmates.

External link

• Life of Saint Godric – excerpts