In 1104 another chronicler, Simeon of Durham, records how Cuthbert's coffin was opened in preparation for formal reinterment in a new church, the precursor of Durham cathedral. |
It is essential that in the short window of opportunity that exists before reinterment, that thorough research is conducted that will be of academic and public benefit, and for posterity. |
He returned in December, and on the fourteenth of that month the ceremony of reinterment took place. |
In connection with their reinterment he had planned a great popular demonstration. |
The consent of the family being obtained, the reinterment took place on the 20th of August of that year. |
I wish to assure your readers that those in charge of the exhumation and reinterment were not similarly careless. |