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Cuthbert would not go to King Ecgfrith, so King Ecgfrith and his entire court had to go to Cuthbert.
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When the Reformers sold off the treasures of Durham Cathedral, they sold a priceless piece of Scottish history into oblivion.
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The Sheriff of Northumberland allows wealth and power to go to his head — and his digestion.
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Shortly before Easter, an ivory box went missing from the gifts presented at the shrine of St Cuthbert.
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A monk living in the tumbledown hermitage that had once belonged to St Cuthbert reluctantly decided that it needed more than repairs.
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As late as the fifteenth century, criminals on the run could find refuge in the precincts of England’s great churches.
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When the plague once again visited Northumbria, Bishop Cuthbert of Lindisfarne left his island retreat and brought comfort and healing to the suffering.