Died March 20, 687. Saint Herbert was the priestly disciple and good
friend of
Saint Cuthbert (f.d. today).
He lived alone on the island on
Lake Derwentwater, later called Saint Herbert's. Each year Herbert
would visit Saint Cuthbert at Lindisfarne. In 686, the year before
Saint Cuthbert died, he travelled to Carlisle, and Herbert visited him
there instead.
Saint Cuthbert told Herbert on this visit that if he had anything to ask
he must do so at this time because he foresaw that he would die and the
Herbert would not see him again in this world. Herbert wept and begged
him not to abandon him, but to pray that since they had served God
together in the world, they be taken at the same time. Saint Cuthbert
prayed for a moment and then predicted that this would be so. Soon
afterward Herbert fell ill and his illness lasted until March 20 of the
following year, when both saints died.
Ruins of a circular stone building on St. Herbert's Isle there may be
connected with him
(
Attwater,
Attwater2,
Benedictines,
Encyclopaedia,
Farmer,
White).