Tag Archives: Saints
Kilwinning Abbey – saints and bell towers. #atozchallenge
Winning was a successful preacher from Ireland who built a church on the banks of the River Garnock in North Ayrshire after being revealed the site by an angel in a vision. Not entirely convinced this is how it all started, but the subsequent abbey is named after him. A Kil means ‘cell’ of the […]
Durham Cathedral and St. Cuthbert. #atozchallenge
Continuing my blogging theme of Abbeys and Cathedrals… Cuthbert was monk and spent some of his life at Lindisfarne in the kingdom of Northumbria (NE England) and is considered the saint of that region. Although, he was probably Scottish, not English. He became the bishop of Lindisfarne in 685AD, but gave it up to live […]
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