Baldred of Tyninghame
Northumbrian hermit and abbot
Feast: 6 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
The Catholic Encyclopedia distinguishes two men named Baldred, often confused. One was a Celtic bishop of Strathclyde, said to have succeeded St Kentigern, who founded houses for monks and consecrated virgins and the churches of Aldhame, Tyninghame and Prestonkirk.
The other, Baldred or Baltherus, was a holy English hermit-priest associated with Lindisfarne, who died in 756; many miracles are ascribed to him. Both are remembered on 6 March.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
A hermit and pastor of the early Church in Scotland and Northumbria.
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - St. Baldred
- Wikidata Q1272204 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Baldred of Tyninghame (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.