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Ian R Malcomson wrote:
> "ephemeralparadox@yahoo.com" <ephemeralparadox@yahoo.com> writes
>
>> I have a player running a cleric of St. Cuthbert and i was wondering if
>> anyone could direct me to any good resources (books, websites, etc) on
>> the diety.
>>
>> So far i have found out that he was a minor diety in greyhawk, does
>> anyone know why he was made into a major power for 3e?
>
>
> Well, lesser deity... "Minor" is relative - he's all over the place, in
> terms of GH sources and modules. It's a "vs. Iuz" thing - St C and he
> ain't exactly pals.
>
>> Also turns out
>> that St. Cuthbert was a real person that Bede wrote a history on.
>
>
> Don't mistake the two. I don't know if Gygax had the 7th-century guy in
> mind when he thought up his GH deity - likely a little, in name at least.
>
> Anyway, this link goes through the St C of Venerable Bede fame:
>
>
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/bede-cuthbert.html
>
Note that, among his other miracles, St. Cuthbert was renowned for
curing diarrhea:
CHAPTER XXXVIII
HOW, DURING HIS ILLNESS, HE CURED ONE OF NIS ATTENDANTS OF A DIARRHEA
" His malady now began to grow upon him, and we thought that the time of
his dissolution was at hand. He bade his attendants carry him to his
cell and oratory. It was the third hour of the day. We therefore carried
him thither, for he was too feeble to walk himself. When we reached the
door, we asked him to let one of us go in with him, to wait upon him;
for no one had ever entered therein but himself. He cast his eyes round
on all, and, fixing them on the sick brother above mentioned, said, '
Walstod shall go in with me.' Now Walstod was the man's name. He went in
accordingly, and stayed till the ninth hour: when he came out, and said
to me, ' The bishop wishes you to go in unto him; but I have a most
wonderful thing to tell you: from the moment of my touching the bishop,
when I supported him into the oratory, I have been entirely free from my
old complaint. ' No doubt this was brought about by the effect of his
heavenly piety, that, whereas in his time of health and strength he had
healed many, he should now heal this man, when he was himself at the
point of death, that so there might be a standing proof how strong the
holy man was in spirit, though his body was at the lowest degree of
weakness. In this cure he followed the example of the holy and reverend
father and bishop, Aurelius Augustine, who, when weighed down by the
illness of which he died, and lying on his couch, was entreated by a man
to lay his hand on a sick person whom he had brought to him, that so he
might be made well. To which Augustine replied, ' If I had such power, I
should first have practised it towards myself.' The sick man answered, '
I have been commanded to come to you: for some one said to me in a
dream, Go to Bishop Augustine, and let him place his hand upon you, and
you shall be well.' On hearing this, Augustine placed his hand upon him,
gave him his blessing, and sent him home perfectly recovered."
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