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When the Saints go Marching in:
August of 1997, Da had just passed away, and One in a Hundred was being staged at Durham Cathedral [where the remains of St. Aidan are entombed].
My girlfriend Tricia, who I was later to marry, had travelled from Derbyshire to console me and to see the show. During her visit she asked if I had ever been to the home of Saint Aidan - Holy Island in Northumberland.
I said ‘No.’
‘Then I shall take you there.’
When the exhibition came to a close, had been dismantled and put into store, we headed to Holy Island for a couple of nights. We returned from the island on August 31st - St. Aidan’s Day. Back home I turned on the radio. The airwaves were dominated by the breaking news that Princess Diana had been killed in a car crash in Paris.
The Princess of Wales died on St. Aidan’s Day, the date that commemorates the death of the Celtic Saint… DIANA is an anagram of AIDAN.
August of 1997, Da had just passed away, and One in a Hundred was being staged at Durham Cathedral [where the remains of St. Aidan are entombed].
My girlfriend Tricia, who I was later to marry, had travelled from Derbyshire to console me and to see the show. During her visit she asked if I had ever been to the home of Saint Aidan - Holy Island in Northumberland.
I said ‘No.’
‘Then I shall take you there.’
When the exhibition came to a close, had been dismantled and put into store, we headed to Holy Island for a couple of nights. We returned from the island on August 31st - St. Aidan’s Day. Back home I turned on the radio. The airwaves were dominated by the breaking news that Princess Diana had been killed in a car crash in Paris.
The Princess of Wales died on St. Aidan’s Day, the date that commemorates the death of the Celtic Saint… DIANA is an anagram of AIDAN.