{"id":110699,"date":"2022-03-21T17:04:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110699"},"modified":"2022-03-21T17:56:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:56:52","slug":"bbc-st-cuthberts-day-pilgrimage-in-honour-of-saint-of-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110699","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) St Cuthbert&#8217;s Day: Pilgrimage in honour of &#8216;saint of the North&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pilgrimage has taken place in County Durham in honour of a local saint.<\/p>\n<p>The five-mile walk from Finchale Priory to Durham marks the arrival of the remains of St Cuthbert in AD995 at the site of the cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>It was then the culmination of a long journey which began following a Viking raid on Lindisfarne in AD793.<\/p>\n<p>About 120 people took part earlier, including a delegation of local MPs and tourism bosses from Spain, who have been visiting the region.<\/p>\n<p>St Cuthbert was a monk, bishop and hermit who lived in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria and is often called the patron saint of the North of England.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-tyne-60795828\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The walk from Finchale Priory to Durham Cathedral is held to mark St Cuthbert&#39;s Day <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZVST6k2KkN\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZVST6k2KkN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC North East and Cumbria (@BBCNEandCumbria) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNEandCumbria\/status\/1505225721492516872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pilgrimage has taken place in County Durham in honour of a local saint. The five-mile walk from Finchale Priory to Durham marks the arrival of the remains of St Cuthbert in AD995 at the site of the cathedral. It<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110699\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110701,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110699\/revisions\/110701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}