Ade McCabe
Durham Cathedral.
Late afternoon light at Durham Cathedral. I had never been to Durham before and was really taken with it. Beautiful city that I can only describe as a cross between Chester and Cambridge built on seven hills with The River Wear meandering through and creating a natural peninsula.
The Cathedral was founded over the final resting place of St. Cuthbert.
Wiki on St.Cuthbert...
In his lifetime, Cuthbert (635-687) was an influential churchman who was Prior of Melrose and then of Lindisfarne. He was a venerated religious figure, and a successful preacher who was responsible for the spread of Christianity in the North of England. After his death, his grave in Lindisfarne, and the places to which his incorrupt body was subsequently moved – Chester Le-Street and Ripon – became the greatest focus of pilgrimage in early medieval England until the death of Thomas Becket in 1170. Cuthbert’s body has been in Durham since 995, and the grave is still a shrine to which pilgrims travel.
Durham Cathedral.
Late afternoon light at Durham Cathedral. I had never been to Durham before and was really taken with it. Beautiful city that I can only describe as a cross between Chester and Cambridge built on seven hills with The River Wear meandering through and creating a natural peninsula.
The Cathedral was founded over the final resting place of St. Cuthbert.
Wiki on St.Cuthbert...
In his lifetime, Cuthbert (635-687) was an influential churchman who was Prior of Melrose and then of Lindisfarne. He was a venerated religious figure, and a successful preacher who was responsible for the spread of Christianity in the North of England. After his death, his grave in Lindisfarne, and the places to which his incorrupt body was subsequently moved – Chester Le-Street and Ripon – became the greatest focus of pilgrimage in early medieval England until the death of Thomas Becket in 1170. Cuthbert’s body has been in Durham since 995, and the grave is still a shrine to which pilgrims travel.