Monument To St Cuthbert Unveiled At Lindisfarne Monastery. A new monument to St Cuthbert - one of Britain’s holiest of saints - has been unveiled at the Lindisfarne monastery in Northumberland. The ...
Chaucer wrote that spring inspires people to go on pilgrimages. But it was in the dead of winter that my sister and I began dreaming of unfolding our legs from beneath our desks and walking, as ...
Winter in North­umbria is a cruel and unforgiving time. Short, dark days. Rain, snow and hail punctuated with blasts of icy wind from across the North Sea. It seems no coincidence that the feast day ...
A pilgrimage has taken place in County Durham in honour of a local saint. The five-mile walk from Finchale Priory to Durham marks the arrival of the remains of St Cuthbert in AD995 at the site of the ...
THE story of the Lindisfarne Gospels encompasses the whole of the north, but at its centre stands one man: St Cuthbert, the North-East’s own saint, a man of miracles who exerted an extraordinary pull ...
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After the destruction of the shrine, the heart was torn out of the monastery and the last Prior, Hugh Whitehead, handed it over to the King in December 1540. This was quite a wise move, as it led to ...
A St Cuthbert’s Mission/Pakuri woman, her daughter and her granddaughter perished in a horrific crash yesterday at around 6.30 pm. This was confirmed to the Sunday Stabroek by the toshao of the ...