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8th-century Bishop of Hexham
Alcmund of Hexham
[a]
(died 7 September 780 or 781) became the 7th bishop of the see of
Hexham
in
Northumberland
when he was consecrated on 24 April 767;
[1]
the see was centred on the church there founded by
Wilfrid
.
[2]
Alcmund died on 7 September 780 or 781
[1]
and was buried beside
Acca
outside the church. Virtually nothing is now known of his life, but he was apparently deeply venerated as one of the Hexham saints.
Relics
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By the early 11th century, after the
Danes
had ravaged this part of the country, it seems that his tomb had been entirely forgotten.
Symeon of Durham
writes that Alcmund appeared in a vision to Dregmo, a man of Hexham, urging him to tell
Alfred son of Westou
,
sacrist
of
Durham
, to have his body
translated
(removed and re-buried as a relic). Alfred did so, but stole one of the bones to take back with him to Durham; the shrine however could not be moved by any strength of man until the bone was replaced.
[3]
In 1154, the church, having been ruined again, was again restored, and the bones of the Hexham saints, including Alcmund, were gathered into a single
shrine
. The
Scots
however pillaged and finally destroyed both church and shrine in a border raid in 1296.
[3]
Notes
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Also spelt
Ealhmund
,
Alhmund
or
Alchmund
Citations
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References
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- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996).
Handbook of British Chronology
(Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-56350-X
.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Thurston, Herbert (1907). "
St. Alcmund
". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
Catholic Encyclopedia
. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.