Priory

It becomes one of the brightest lights in all of Christendom.

The Priory, the Christian community on Lindisfarne becomes one of the most significant places for Christians in the entire world.

And obviously there's the Lindisfarne Gospels, which is a version of the four Gospels of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

And the Lindisfarne Gospels are associated with the island.

And he was born in great poverty.

And he became a servant at the Priory of the Dominicans in Lima, Peru.

And, well, obviously he took to the faith.

He took to the faith and he became, he was also raised as kind of an apprentice of a priest.

It afterwards remained for a long time at Durham.

and then was restored to the Priory at Lindisfarne, where it was preserved until the dissolution of the monasteries.

Purchased by Sir Robert Cotton in the 17th century, it passed through him to the keeping of the British Museum.

The Rushworth Gospels was so named because presented to the Bodleian Library by James Rushworth of Lincoln's Inn, who was a deputy clerk to the House of Commons during the Long Parliament.

What is this place called anyway? Bobby asked, finally managed to get his hair in place.

So tell Priory, Steve replied.

It's not far away, a little setback from the reservoir in a small woodland.

Apparently, this brother Michael looks after the place.

According to Arthur, his family's been looking after the priory for over 500 years.

They drove on for another 15 minutes, and the road narrowed as skeletal trees passed in on either side.

The rain had eased to a fine drizzle by the time the leaning, rusted gates of Chattel Priory came into view.

A small cottage-like shack standing watch beside them.

But, not far from the castle, another institution was taking shape.

Around 1090 AD, Robert de Lacy founded the Priory of St. John the Evangelist at Pontefract.

The men who lived there belonged to the Cluniac Order.

The Cluniacs were part of the Benedictine tradition, originating with the Great Abbey of Cluny in France.

By 1279, there were 27.

Generation after generation of men lived, worshipped, and died with the religious community at Pontefract.

And during that time, the Priory became connected to one of the strangest chapters in the Tower's history.

So, in the early 1300s, England was ruled by King Edward II, and one of the king's most powerful enemies was his own cousin, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster.

I was at primary school and then I was at primary school because I wrote about it for a project and drew what I'd seen.

I'd been on holiday with the family somewhere over near Sandringham and we went to the ruins of, might have been Castle Lake or Priory, can't remember.

but I was with mum and my auntie Jane and there was a big tall stone tower

yeah

like, it's like a cross between the Mandalorian and a harvest.

You know the land from the Priory for three streets quite well.

That's the limits of your geography, basically.

So if you are honest about your intellect, you will think, you will be interested in honest inquiry.

He was just recently arrived.

Obviously, this is not a normal practice of the Priory.

From the sounds of people running towards you, you piece together that their pace is frantic.

This is not a well-poised, organized run.

Very few remain in your path, but what you do see haunts you.

What you thought were dogs playing with toys, you look and you see they're tearing apart a person limb from limb, their eyes wide.

You see members of the Priory, topless, clothes strewn, and they're actively flaying themselves, unable to comprehend what is happening to them.

And then you see them, alone on the island, one figure.