St Cuthbert's coffin
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title:
St Cuthbert's coffin
text:
What is usually referred to as St Cuthbert's coffin is a fragmentary oak coffin in Durham Cathedral, pieced together in the 20th century, which between AD 698 and 1827 contained the remains of Saint Cuthbert, who died in 687. In fact when Cuthbert's remains were yet again reburied in 1827 in a new coffin, some 6,000 pieces of up to four previous layers of coffin were left in the burial, and then finally removed in 1899. This coffin is thought to be Cuthbert's first wooden coffin, and probably to
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description:
Oak coffin in Durham Cathedral
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Cuthbert%27s_coffin
date created:
2006-04-20T12:13:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T04:24:38Z
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