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Easter date brings matrimonial harmony
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A thought for Easter: Had it not been for King Oswy of
Northumbria and the need for harmony in his domestic arrangements,
Britain might be celebrating the most important event in the
Christian calendar on a different date.
It was King Oswy who convened the Synod of Whitby in 664 at
which the date of Easter was thrashed out. Whitby Abbey, then under
St Hilda, was a great centre of Christian learning, though the
stone shell which stands gaunt on the Yorkshire clifftop today is
of later, Norman, origins.
Within years of St Augustine bringing Christianity to
Anglo-Saxon England in 597, early ...
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Alexander in the Spotlight as the new Head of the NEA
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
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Get to D.C., head right; Helms followed his own path.(PAGE ONE)
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