St. Neots
They stole Neot's remains and started their own lucrative pilgrimage business.
Key words
- Lucrative: earning or producing a lot of money
He gave up a lucrative career as a lawyer to look after his kids.
- Priory: a building where monks or nuns live, work, and pray
The abbeys and priories are tourist attractions.
- Prosper: to become successful, especially financially
Lots of manufacturing companies prospered at that time.
- Inn: a pub where you can stay for the night, usually in the countryside
The Old Ferry Boat Inn is said to be the oldest pub in England.
- Foundry: a factory where metal is melted and poured into specially shaped containers to produce objects
His apprenticeship started at age 15 as a boilermaker at an iron foundry.
Read the article to find the answers
- Where is St Neots?
- How did it start its own lucrative pilgrimage business?
- Where did Neot live and die?
- What happened to the priory at St Neots?
St. Neots
St Neots is a town 18 miles west of Cambridge, near Huntingdon, the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell. It is named after the ninth-century Saxon monk Saint Neot, the patron saint of fish fries.
Unlike Bury St Edmunds and St Albans, the priory near Huntingdon had no saint of its own, no stories of miracles associated with a holy man or a holy place, so a group of monks on a pilgrimage to Neot's tomb in Cornwall stole some of Neot's bones from the grave and brought them back to their priory.