The body of [[St. Cuthbert]] (c.634-687) lay at Chester le Street for 113 years, between 882 and 995. Cuthbert had been entombed at the monastery of [[Lindisfarne]], on [[Holy Island]], but following the [[Viking]] raid on the monastery in 875, the monks fled the island, bearing Cuthbert's body with them. After a seven-year peregrination around [[Northumbria]], they settled in Chester le Street; in 995 they (and Cuthbert) moved to [[Ripon]], before finally settling in [[Durham]]. | The body of [[St. Cuthbert]] (c.634-687) lay at Chester le Street for 113 years, between 882 and 995. Cuthbert had been entombed at the monastery of [[Lindisfarne]], on [[Holy Island]], but following the [[Viking]] raid on the monastery in 875, the monks fled the island, bearing Cuthbert's body with them. After a seven-year peregrination around [[Northumbria]], they settled in Chester le Street; in 995 they (and Cuthbert) moved to [[Ripon]], before finally settling in [[Durham]]. |