POSTHUMOUS WAY OF SAINT CUTHBERT - NORHAM, ENGLAND

Welcome to our study trip around the previous Kingdom of Northumbria, in search of Saint Cuthbert's posthumeous path and the mystery of his archangelic guardians. For centuries, scholars have tried to mark and pin churches dedicated to the saint on a map and join these dots through different places in northern England to find a legendary way, the community of Saint Cuthbert traveled in the ninth and tenth centuries. Yet, no one knows the precise route.
Norham is a small village seven miles from Berwick, on the northern edge of Northumberland, beside the River Tweed. It is one of the most northerly villages in England. The village grew up at a crossing point on the Tweed. A sizeable community grew up near the castle during the medieval period. One reminder of this period is the market cross, now topped by a replica cross shaft. In 830s and 840, the Community of Saint Cuthbert brought with them the relics of St Cuthbert after their monastery at Lindisfarne was plundered by the Vikings in 793 AD. They possibly stayed in Norham till 875AD, when they started their journey around Northumbria to save the relics of the saint, places in a wooden coffin, decorated among others by seven archangels, including four heterodox. Saint Cuthbert's community stay in Norham is marked by the parish church dedicated to that saint. Additionally, Prince Bishop of Durham, the gurdians of the saint's cult, built there a Norman castle in the twelfth century to protect the border with Scotland.
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