A PILGRIMAGE.
ANCIENT AND MODERN-BISHOPS AT LINDISFARNE. (UT MtEQKAPH—mESS ASSOCIATION—COMttIQIIT,) London, August 12. Many colonial and other bishops visited Lindisfarne, where the Archbishop of Melbourne (Dr. Clarke) preached among tho ruins. Holy Island, or Lindisfarne, an islet, or island peninsula, four miles long and two miles broad, lies off the -Northumberland coast, thirteen miles south of Berwick, and three nud a half from i Beal, on the North-eastern Railway. It is distant two miles 'from tho mainland, with which, however, it is connected by sands at low tide. It has a village and interesting remains of an old castle and of the onco famous abbey. An episcopal see was planted here under Oswald, lung of Northuinbria, in tho first half of tho 7th century by Aidan, a Scotch monk from lona, whom the King invited to revive the Christianity which had nearly perished in consequence of the victories of the heathen Mercians. In August, ISS7, three thousand' barefooted pilgrims crossed the sands to Lindisfarne.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 276, 14 August 1908, Page 7
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164A PILGRIMAGE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 276, 14 August 1908, Page 7
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