The Sheriff of Northumberland allows wealth and power to go to his head — and his digestion.

Shortly before Easter, an ivory box went missing from the gifts presented at the shrine of St Cuthbert.

One Christmas Eve back in the twelfth century, a monk keeping midnight vigil in Lindisfarne priory watched spellbound as two great doors opened all by themselves.

When Sir Rodbert became Brother Martin, he found the change so difficult that he began to wonder if even the saints were against him.

As he sat in his guest room at Durham Abbey, Ranulf de Capella could think of nothing but finding someone to rid him of his painful toothache.

On Easter night, monk Reginald woke from a doze to find the aged hermit Godric singing lustily.