Event: Exhumation, Relics-collecting/depositing/granting, Relics-incorrupt preservation/placing in reliquary/requesting/translatingCuthbert 1.translation

Scholarly Info
Description Cuthbert 1 put into the hearts of his brethren to take his bones and to put them in a light chest in the same place, but above the floor. Eadberht 3 agreed and told them to do that on the anniversary of his burial. When they opened the grave, they found his body to be intact and whole.
Primary Source Info
Date from Source Eleven years after his burial, on the 20th March

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*The light chest in which they put Cuthbert's intact body is the wooden coffin now preserved in Durham cathedral.

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