St Guthlac
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Another slide from my history presentation.
Guthlac was born into the Mercian nobility. At the age of 24, he quit the army and joined the Abbey at Repton. After just 2 years there he was asked to move on. Supposedly it was because of his complete abstinence from drinking alcohol.
He went to the fens to seek solitude and fight the demons speaking in strange tongues that resided there. The demons turned out to bea fen dwelling tribe called the Gyrwa that spoke in an old bretonic language.
Guthlac made a home in a barrow a d lived there for the last 15 years of his life. He would give sermons and perform miracles. An abbey, dedicated to him was founded soon after his death.
