So it was decided to send Aidan to Northumbria. St. Oswald came to love Aidan and gave him the island of Lindisfarne (another name: Holy Island) situated off the north-eastern shores of England in the ...

St Columba inhabited the lonely rock of Iona, amidst wild Hebridean seas. St Aidan made his home on Lindisfarne, encircled by the creeping Northumbrian tides. Then there was Aidan’s follower St ...

"I heard you wanted photos of snow scapes. Well we had the snow yesterday and have beautiful sunshine today but here's one of the Statue of St. Aidan and Lindisfarne Castle." ...

Historic finds are not uncommon on Lindisfarne, which was home to a monastery founded in 635 by Irish monk St Aidan. The famous Lindisfarne Gospels were produced on the island and, in 793 ...

The first monastery at Lindisfarne was started by a monk called Aidan, in 635 AD.' 'He built it for Oswald, the Saxon king of Northumbria, who had become a Christian.' 'Early monasteries weren't ...

They have been replaced under the Peregrini Lindisfarne Landscape Partnership ... of pilgrimage since 635 when King Oswald gave it to St Aidan to found a monastery. Before the opening of a road ...