sentences:  In about 701 a monk named Guthlac came to what was then an island in the Fens to live the life of a hermit.Following in Guthlac’s footsteps, a monastic community came into being here, which was dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin, Saint Bartholomew and Saint Guthlac in the eighth century.The place-name 'Crowland' is first attested circa 745 AD in the "Vita S. Guthlaci auctore Felice", reprinted in the "Memorials of Saint Guthlac" published in Wisbech in 1881.