Baring-Gould’s sources: German Martyrologies. Authority;— A Life by Uffing, monk of Werthcim, in the 10th cent.] This saint came of a family as illustrious in the annals of profane history as in those of the Church. She was the granddaughter of Count Bernard, son of Charles Martel, and Gundlindis, daughter of Adelbert, Duke of the Alemanni, whose sister was S. Odilia. Her parents were Theodoric, Duke of the Ripuarii, and Theodrada, afterwards Abbess of Soissons. Charles Martel her great-grandfather was son of Pepin, son of S. Bega and nephew of S. Gertrude, and grandson of the Blessed Pepin of Landen and of S. Itta or Iduberga, his wife.1 S. Ida was married to Ecbert, Duke of the Saxons who inhabited the region between the Rhine and the Weser. After his death, she spent her widowhood in works of charity and daily devotion. She had a stone coffin made for herself, and filled it daily to the brim with food for the poor. She was buried at Herzfeld.

THE TRANSLATION OF S. CUTHBERT. [Sarum, York, and Durham Kalendars. Authorities: — Simeon of Durham, and the Hist, of the Miracles and Translations of S. Cuthbert [bishop of Lindisfarne (d. 687)] in Mabillon.] Bede [English monk and historian (d. 735)] relates, in the life of S. Cuthbert, that the saint charged his disciples before his death, that rather than ever 1 Charles Martel f Count Bcrnarc|— ' Theodrada— S. Ida t King Pepin — Charlemagne [king of the Franks, crowned emperor in 800] — Louis the Pious. fall under the yoke of schismatics or infidels, they should, when threatened with such a calamity, take with them his mortal remains, and choose some other dwelling. In the year 875 the province of Northumberland was so cruelly infested by Danish pirates, and Lindisfarne was so much exposed to their continual ravages, that Eardulf the bishop, Eadred the abbot, and the community of the monks, left that place, and carrying with them that sacred treasure, wandered to and fro for seven years. In 882 they rested with it at Concester (Chester-le-Street), a few miles from the Roman wall, where the bishop’s see continued one hundred and thirteen years, as Camden remarks. Both King Alfred and the Danish leader granted peace for a month to all persons that fled to the saint's shrine, and Alfred gave to this church all the land that lies between the Tyne and the Tees. In 995, in the fresh inroads of the Danes [Viking raiders from Scandinavia], Bishop Aldune retired with the saint’s body to Ripon, and four months after to Durham, a place strong by its natural situation, but not habitable, till the people of the country, on this occasion, cut down the wood, and raised a small church, and cells for the monks.