The ghost stories and medieval ruins that shaped the North York Moors 👻 Revenants and Remains is a new series of ghost-story tours of English Heritage properties this autumn
A tour that leaves you ‘caught between glimpses of a celestial afterlife and a one-way ticket to eternal purgatory’ will pique interest far beyond HalloweenOctober 31, 2022 7:00 am
The 90-minute walking tours of five monastic sites across the North of England, ranging from Cumbria to NorthI’ve come to the North York Moorson a misty autumnal afternoon to explore two of the sites featured in the tours, the former Cistercian abbeys of Rievaulx and Byland. Both date from the 12th century and their spindly ruins provide an atmospheric backdrop.
The monks used their ghost stories to affirm the core belief that underpinned their way of life — only prayer could lead to the salvation of souls. “People in the Middle Ages were obsessed with shortening their stay in purgatory. The stories reveal the lives of medieval monks were epitomised by a constant state of moral vigilance for the sin-stained souls of their patrons, easing their path to Paradise,” Michael adds.
Wandering around the ruins of the nave, the main body of the church, and the refectory, where the monks would eat their largely vegetarian meals in silence while a senior brother read from the scriptures, I can already feel the ancient spirits swirling around me.
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