Historical records say that the monastery at Lindisfarne was founded by a monk named Aidan in A.D. 635. At the time, Lindisfarne was controlled by a king named Oswald. While Oswald was a Christian ...

“Aidan of Lindisfarne (as he was known) was one to traverse both town and country on foot, never on horseback, unless compelled by some urgent necessity; and wherever in his way he saw ...

The evidence suggesting that this could be the site of one of Holy Island’s original early Anglo-Saxon period churches – perhaps even one built by the founder of Lindisfarne, St Aidan – is ...

But Christianity was not quite extinguished. Around 634, a monk named St. Aidan was sent by King Oswald of Northumbria to Lindisfarne to establish a monastery. Anglo-Saxon kings were eager to ...

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 ...

The most beautiful product of this time was the Lindisfarne Gospels. St Aidan, coming from Iona, had founded a monastery on the island in the early 7th century and the Gospels were created in 715–720 ...

Once there was a mighty power in the North. That great kingdom was called Northumbria and, as the name suggests, it was the Anglo-Saxon state that occupied the land north of the Humber. Its ...

Aidan was bishop of Lindisfarne — the famous holy island off Northumbria’s coast, another place well worth visiting — and young Cuthbert understood that the vision meant that he, too ...

The writing room Aidan’s monks established, a scriptorium, paved the way for the creation of the Lindisfarne Gospels a generation later, but its production is linked to another famous event in ...

the restored Lindisfarne Castle, the stunning Gertrude Jeykll gardens, and the mead of St Aidan’s Winery. It is only possible ...