by Stephen Wearing

A series of plays written for radio by Bertram Colgrave and Hilda Colgrave
6, St. Wilfrid
Characters
Wilfrid
Cudda, a monk at Lindisfame
King Oswy, King of Northumbria Colman, Bishop of Lindisfarne
Hilda, Prioress of Whitby Monastery Two workmen at the building of Hexham Abbey
Eddi, a priest of Wilfrid
Ecgfrith, King of Northumbria Odda
Aethilwalh, King of Sussex
Produced by Cecil McGivem
St. Wilfrid was born in 634, the son of a Northumbrian thegn, and died in 709, when he was visiting monasteries he had founded in Mercia.
His body was buried in the church of St. Peter at Ripon. His biographer, Eddius, wrote of him that he was ' courteous to everybody, active in body, a quick walker, eager for every good work, never cast down '. He is named in the Roman Martyrology, and several English dioceses keep his feasts.
(Stagshazu)