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enture with us to a land so wild and savage its inhabitants and landscape were said to swallow entire Roman legions, terrify kings and assimilate the most fearsome invaders of their times—the Vikings. In more recent times it has served as the ever-satisfying playground of archaeologists and the inspiration for some of English literature’s greatest prose. But echoing through its vast grandeur remains the traces of its greatest conquerer—the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Where terror and might once reigned supreme, the inexorable influence of Christianity transformed a fiercely pagan region into a valiant and independent culture, one where preserving a pre-Protestant tradition became a source of identity. The Scottish characteristic of opposing tyrants was merged with the thriving infrastructure of Anglo-Saxon tradition and together they created a glorious ambition for the Gospel that spread throughout the rest of Christendom.

We are speaking of the old Kingdom of Northumbria, stretching from York to Edinburgh, comprised of those legendary border towns such as Carlisle, Berwick, Newcastle, Selkirk and Dumfries. Places of great renown such as Nottingham and Sherwood Forest, old stomping grounds of Beatrix Potter and Sir Walter Scott, the progenitor of the Yorkist dynasty and the art of illuminated Gospels.