Long before pens met parchment in monasteries, an illiterate herdsman named Caedmon changed the course of English literature. Inspired by a divine dream, he composed the first known Christian hymn in ...
On this day we celebrate the feast of St. Cædmon, "the father of English Sacred Song. Fell asleep hard by, 680." Cædmon was an old man who lived at St. Hilda's monastery at Whitby. When a beer party ...
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