Crayke Abbey
In the late 7th century, St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne founded an abbey at Crayke near York. Some fifty years on, it was home to two monks now venerated as saints, Ultan, a calligrapher, and Echa, a hermit. Crayke was also one of the places where the monks of Lindisfarne took Cuthbert’s body during the Viking raids of the ninth century.
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