Good Friday Pilgrimage To Holy Island

BERWICK-UPON-TWEED, ENGLAND - MARCH 29: Pilgrims celebrate Easter by carrying wooden crosses as they walk over the tidal causeway to Lindisfarne during the final leg of their annual Good Friday pilgrimage on March 29, 2024 in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England. Pilgrims annually celebrate Easter by crossing at low tide to Lindisfarne, a trek that follows a walk of between 70 to 120 miles in the days leading up to Good Friday. Lindisfarne has become known as Holy Island because of the part it played in the story of bringing the Christian gospel to England. In the 7th Century, King Oswald of Northumbria granted Lindisfarne to Aidan, a monk and missionary, so that he could establish a monastery modelled on one in which he lived on the island of Iona. (Footage by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)