Question

Whose shrine does the Durham Cathedral house? What other purpose did/does the cathedral serve?

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Answer 1

It was built as a monastic cathedral to house the shrine of Saint Cuthbert. It replaced an earlier church constructed in his honor. Originally, Durham Cathedral was built as a monastic cathedral for a community of Benedictine monks. The cathedral also served a political and military function by reinforcing the authority of the prince-bishops of the Catholic Church over England’s northern border with Scotland.

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Answer 2

The shrine there's the Shrine of St Cuthbert. The cathedral is a form of a reliquary and a library for plenty incredible and critical spiritual and ancient works of Great Britain, which includes copies of the Magna Carta and the stays of the Venerable Bede.