12542512 - A magic lantern slide circa 1900. Religious sl...

A magic lantern slide circa 1900. Religious slides . Legend has it that at some point on the monks' journey back to Chester le-Street with the body of St Cuthbert, the cart carrying the coffin suddenly stopped and could not be moved. The leader of the community, Bishop Aldhun, had a vision of St Cuthbert demanding to be taken to a place called 'Dunholme,' but nobody knew where it was. The puzzled monks stood perplexed at how to find 'Dunholme'. Then a cow girl walked by, and asked another young woman if she had seen a lost dun (brown) cow. The young woman said she had seen the cow heading in the direction of Dunholme â€“ and pointed out the way. The monks, who had overheard this exchange, decided to follow the cow-girl, and found that St Cuthbert's coffin moved readily in that direction. They continued along that road and got to Dunholme (Durham).

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Credit: © John Short / Alaska Stock

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