... 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.

Cuthbert, struck down by plague, was vexed to find that his brethren had been praying for him all the previous night.

The blacksmiths of Crowley’s ironworks in Winlaton and Swalwell took it upon themselves to regulate prices in the markets of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

The young Christian from ancient Northumbria was healed of a lame leg in a manner that reminded Bede of the archangel Rafael.

Cuthbert’s friend comes asking for a priest to attend his dying wife — so long as it isn’t Cuthbert.

William Stead conceived modern print journalism in the belief that newspapers could change the world.