KEEN ramblers are welcome to join a pilgrimage to mark the feast day for a Northern saint, tomorrow.
Members of the Northumbrian Association are following the route taken by monks carrying the remains of St Cuthbert to Durham, where the cathedral was built to house his permanent shrine.
The monks were fleeing Viking invaders, seeking a safe resting place for Cuthbert's corpse and the Lindisfarne Gospels, both of which were housed for the previous 113 years at St Mary and St Cuthbert's Parish Church, in Chester-le-Street.
A six-and-a-half mile walk will be staged from the church, in Church Chare, to Durham Cathedral, via the River Wear footpath, with a lunch stop at Finchale Priory.
It starts at 11.30am, with the leisurely lunch break at about 1pm, for an hour, before the expected arrival at the cathedral at about 4pm.
St Cuthbert's Day is March 20, the day on which the former Bishop of Lindisfarne died, in 687AD.
Anyone interested in joining the pilgrimage is asked to contact organiser John Danby, the association treasurer, on 0191-389 2699.
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