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The Northumbrian monk was touched by two thieving birds who repented of their misdeeds.
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From the Tyne and Wear Archives. Public domain.
... I heard John Wesley sing. A visitor on the quayside on Sunday May 30th, 1742, would have stumbled into a crowd agape and a determined clergyman singing psalms.
© David Dixon, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cuthbert, struck down by plague, was vexed to find that his brethren had been praying for him all the previous night.
By Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
The blacksmiths of Crowley’s ironworks in Winlaton and Swalwell took it upon themselves to regulate prices in the markets of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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The young Christian from ancient Northumbria was healed of a lame leg in a manner that reminded Bede of the archangel Rafael.
© James Denham, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cuthbert’s friend comes asking for a priest to attend his dying wife — so long as it isn’t Cuthbert.
By A. D. Lewis, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
William Stead conceived modern print journalism in the belief that newspapers could change the world.