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Bartholomew of Farne was a Benedictine hermit. Born Tostig to parents of Scandinavian origin in Whitby Northumbria England he changed his name while still a child to William. He then travelled through Europe possibly to escape marriage. He returned to England to enter a Benedictine monastery at Durham. It was here that he received a vision of St. Cuthbert and then decided to inhabit Cuthbert’s old cell on the island of Farne. There he remained for the remaining 42 years of his life.