Festival honours Christian saints.THE 18-month Golden Age of Northumbria project is a community-led venture which has been backed by a pounds 49,600 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The festival, a major part of the project which is being led by Berwick History Society, is based on the calendar of feast days of saints of the Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon kings of Northumbria and the area's importance for early Christianity The term Early Christianity here refers to Christianity of the period after the Death of Jesus in the early 30s and before the First Council of Nicaea in 325. The term is sometimes used in a narrower sense of just the very first followers (disciples) of Jesus of Nazareth and the , with activities and happenings themed around St Oswald, St Aidan, St Bede and St Cuthbert. One aim of the Golden Age of Northumbria project is to encourage pride, understanding and knowledge of this important aspect of north Northumberland's cultural and historical heritage and to foster sustainable tourism There are many different definitions of sustainable tourism. Sustainable tourism in its purest sense, is an industry which attempts to make a low impact on the environment and local culture, while helping to generate income and employment for locals, as well as to promote the to places like Bamburgh, Holy Island, Norham and Glendale. A full programme of events is available from tourist information tourist information - Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful, but contributes to a viewer's gestalt of what's going on with the software or hardware behind it. centres or go to www.goldenageofnorthumbria. .com The Lindisfarne Heritage Centre will also later launch a new exhibition based on the first recorded Viking raid on English soil at Lindisfarne in 793. |
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