Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Anglican Martyrologies. Some late Martyrologists, as Maurolycus, Canisins, Menardus, Bucelinus, &c., have confounded him with S. Egbert, who died at Iona, and who is commemorated on April 24th. Authority Bede’s Eccl. Hist. iv. 29, 30, and his life of S. Cuthbert, u. 12-] S. Eadbert is said to have been bom amongst the South Saxons. He succeeded S. Cuthbert in the see of Lindisfarne, and Bede describes him as a man excelling in knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, and in observance of the angelic precepts. He administered the Church of Lindisfarne for about ten years; during which time it was his custom twice in the year — Advent and Lent — to make a retreat into the islet, where S. Cuthbert had resided, before he went to Fame. There he could be alone with God and his own soul, surrounded by the tumbling grey waves of the Northern ocean. He was present when the body of S. Cuthbert was translated, eleven years after the death of this great prelate, and the body was found perfectly fresh and incorrupt. Shortly after this event, Eadbert fell sick and died. He was placed in the sepulchre of S. Cuthbert