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St Aebbe’s calling to redeem the land

St Aebbe (c.615-683) was one of the pioneers of Christianity in seventh century Northumbria. Noah’s Arcs was originally sited in the Borders, which would have been part of Northumbria. This poem was published in the anthology Sarah Law (ed.) Thin Places, Sacred Spaces (2024, Amethyst Press) ‘a mother of the handmaidens of Christ, called Aebbe,…