The Tees was the dividing line between the two halves of Northumbria, known as Deira and Bernicia. An Anglican Monastery was built here and it later became a Benedictine house. It would be nice if it were so. The great Victorian industrial and urban complex of Middlesbrough covers the site today, but we know where it is. The need for us all to grow closer in our own love of Christ is a duty for us all and a harbinger of much good.
Stones are only symbols.
The pioneers, the link men, were St Gerald and St Colman. If you in Mayo can research them and rediscover them for us, we may be creating a unifying factor that our two great nations desperately need. God chooses His moments. Maybe He has chosen this one. We can only hope so.