After the death of King Edgar, powerful court factions struggled for power by
hiding behind his two sons, twelve-year-old Edward and his younger step-brother Ethelred.
In 978, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dunstan, was being battered in a stormy meeting
when he — along with England’s rich monastic heritage — had a miraculous escape.
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.