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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ancient Diocese and Monastery of Lindisfarne
		Lindisfarne lies some two miles off the Northumberland coast, nine and one-half miles southeast of the border-town of Berwick.
		Aidan came has obtained for it the title of the Iona of England.
		Lindisfarne till the flight of the monks, about 878, when it was carried away together with the relics.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09269a.htm (982 words)

	St. Aidan of Lindisfarne
		Aidan suggested that people who had never heard the Gospel needed to learn of it gradually, and that the approach of evangelists should be gentle.
		Aidan responded that Jesus Christ gave the gift of his life for us, and that surely the son of a mare is not more valuable than the Son of God.
		In art, Saint Aidan is portrayed as a bishop with the monastery of Lindisfarne in his hand and a stag at his feet (because of the legend that his prayer rendered invisible a deer pursued by hunters).
	www.allsaintsbrookline.org /celtic/saints/aidan.html (932 words)

	Aidan of Lindisfarne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne or Lindesfarne, the Apostle of Northumbria (died 651), was the founder and first bishop of the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne in England.
		An Irishman, possibly born in Connacht, Aidan was a monk at the monastery on the island of Iona in Scotland.
		Aidan was a member of the Irish branch of Christianity instead of the Roman branch, but his character and energy in missionary work won him the respect of Pope Honorius I and Felix of Dunwich.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aidan_of_Lindisfarne (567 words)

	Lindisfarne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish born Saint Aidan, who had been sent from Iona off the west coast of Scotland to Northumbria at the request of King Oswald around AD It became the base for Christian evangelising in the North of England and also sent a successful mission to Mercia.
		Lindisfarne also has the small Lindisfarne Castle, based on a Tudor fort, which was refurbished in the Arts and Crafts style by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has a garden created by Gertrude Jekyll.
		Lindisfarne is also the name of a folk group, who recorded a duet of "Fog on the Tyne Revisited" with footballer Paul Gascoigne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lindisfarne (1217 words)

	Lindisfarne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The original community under Aidan lived in gaunt austerity and it was left for Aidan's successor Finan (652-61) to build a church suitable for a Bishop's seat.
		It was during this period that Lindisfarne became a centre of spiritual, evangelical and intellectual activity unparalleled in the English church, and it was the great centre of Christianity in Saxon English church, and it was the great centre of Christianity in Saxon England for the next.
		Lindisfarne is an island rich in both flora and fauna, and the bird population on and around the island is remarkable in variety of species and in number.
	www.go-britain.com /html/lindisfarne.htm (820 words)

	The Story of St. Aidan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Aidan responded, "Perhaps you have been too hard, expecting fruit while the trees were still saplings." As happens to those who speak up, he was promptly consecrated bishop and given the job.
		Lindisfarne was a center of learning and art, preserving the light of knowledge through the time of Europe's Dark Ages.
		Aidan brought gifted young men and women to Lindisfarne and trained them to be the next generation of church leaders -- so well that a half dozen of them are in the calendar of saints.
	www.saintaidan.org /docs/aidan.html (598 words)

	Bede's people: Aidan
		Aidan, a monk in the Irish monastery of Iona in western Scotland, arrived in Northumbria in 635 at the behest of King Oswald.
		To Aidan, who led this mission, fell the responsibility of establishing a new monastery on the island of Lindisfarne, near the royal centre of Bamburgh, on land granted by the king.
		Aidan turned on the king: "is the son of a mare is more important to you than a son of God?" The king then set aside his sword and prostrated himself at the bishop's feet and begged forgiveness.
	www.bedesworld.co.uk /site_2003-05-10/people/aidan.htm (924 words)

	St. Aidan of Lindisfarne - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
		Bede is lavish in praise of the episcopal rule of St. Aidan, and of his Irish co-workers in the ministry.
		Oswald, king of Northumbria, who had studied in Ireland, was a firm friend of St. Aidan, and did all he could for the Irish missioners until his sad death at Maserfield near Oswestry, 5 August, 642.
		Aidan died at Bamborough on the last day of August, 651, and his remains were borne to Lindisfarne.
	www.heiligenlexikon.de /CatholicEncyclopedia/Aidan_von_Lindisfarne.html (206 words)

	Encyclopedia: Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Saint Aidan is said to have been a disciple of Saint Senan on Scattery Island, but nothing else is known with certainty of his early life before he became a monk of Iona.
		Saint Aidan took to this monastery 12 English boys to be raised there, and he was indefatigable in tending to the welfare of children and slaves, for the manumission of many of whom he paid from alms bestowed on him.
		Saint Caesidius, son of a Bishop Saint Rufinus who was martyred, was ordained to the priesthood and martyred with a group of Christians on the shores of Lake Fucino, 60 miles east of Rome (Benedictines).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Saint-Aidan-of-Lindisfarne (784 words)

	Where does Lindisfarne come from
		Aidan was an Irish monk from the monastery St. Columba had founded on the island of Iona.
		Lindisfarne was the name given to the Island by the first Anglo-Saxons to live here and we do not know the meaning of the word.
		Aidan and his monks came from the Irish monastery of Iona and with the support of King Oswald (based at nearby Bamburgh) worked as missionaries among the pagan English of Northumbria.
	www.lindisfarneretreat.org /name.htm (1681 words)

	History of Saint Aidan: St. Aidan's Episcopal Church in Malibu
		Aidan, who had moved to Iona from his birthplace in Ireland, was at the conference and issued these comments to the failed missionary.
		Aidan realized from the first the value of education and established a school in order to train the next generation of Christian leaders for Northumbria.
		Aidan's crest is a torch, a light shining in the darkness, since 'Aidan' is Gaelic for 'fire'.
	www.staidanschurch.org /staidan.html (1291 words)

	Aidan of Lindisfarne - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Our father among the saints Aidan of Lindisfarne, Enlightener of Northumbria (?-651), was the founder and first bishop of the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne off the northeast coast of England.
		An Irishman, possibly born in Connaught, Aidan was a monk at the monastery on the island of Iona in Scotland.
		Aidan chose the island of Lindisfarne, close to the royal castle at Bamburgh, as his diocese.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Aidan_of_Lindisfarne (470 words)

	Lindisfarne - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lindisfarne, also called Holy Island (variant spelling, Lindesfarne), is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which is connected to the mainland of Northumberland by a causeway, and is cut off twice a day by tides.
		Northumberland's patron saint, Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, was a monk and later abbot of the monastery, and his miracles and life are recorded by the Venerable Bede.
		Lindisfarne also has the small Lindisfarne Castle, based on a Tudor fort, which was refurbished in the Arts and Crafts style by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has a garden created by Gertrude Jekyll.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Lindisfarne (599 words)

	Saints of August 31 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Saint Aidan is said to have been a disciple of Saint Senan on Scattery Island, but nothing else is known with certainty of his early life before he became a monk of Iona.
		Aidan's apostolate was advanced by numerous miracles according to Saint Bede, who wrote his biography.
		Saint Aidan took to this monastery 12 English boys to be raised there, and he was indefatigable in tending to the welfare of children and slaves, for the manumission of many of whom he paid from alms bestowed on him.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0831.htm (1979 words)

	Aidan of Lindisfarne, Missionary
		A fellow monk named Aidan suggested that his approach was too harsh.
		With his fellow monks and the English youths whom he trained, Aidan restored Christianity in Northumbria, King Oswald often serving as his interpreter, and extended the mission through the midlands as far south as London.
		Aidan died at the royal town of Bamborough, 31 August, 651.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/bio/52.html (396 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Aidan of Lindisfarne
		Aidan, and of his Irish co-workers in the ministry.
		Aidan, and did all he could for the Irish missioners until his sad death at Maserfield near Oswestry, 5 August, 642.
		Bede tells us that "he was a pontiff inspired with a passionate love of virtue, but at the same time full of a surpassing mildness and gentleness." His feast is celebrated 31 August.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01233d.htm (192 words)

	Commemoration of Our Father among the Saints Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Enlightener of Northumbria
		O Lindisfarne, thou Holy Isle, washed everlastingly by the waves of the sea, as thou didst behold the spiritual struggles and feats of the holy hierarch Aidan, thy very stones bear witness to the glory he hath won with Christ.
		Eireann's child Aidan, growing in wisdom and stature in the land of the Picts, became a true apostle and father to the English, so that multitudes came to sojourn on earth as they were angels and dwell now in the heavens.
		With great pastoral prudence, O holy hierarch Aidan, thou didst feed the lambs of thy new flock with the milk of piety; and when they were replete with such wholesome spiritual sustenance, thou gavest them the solid provender of Orthodox doctrine, thereby confirming their souls in godly reverence and true devotion.
	www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk /servaida.htm (2093 words)

	St. Aidans Church Website
		Aidan was born in Ireland in the late sixth century and later became a monk of Iona in Scotland before being sent to Northumbria to evangelise the intractable English.
		Aidan travelled around Northumbria on foot and whenever people gave him and his companion gifts they would pass them on the poor, the sick and the needy.
		Hence in Christian art St Aidan is sometimes shown together with a tent, reminding us of his death, a stag recalling his endeavours to lead people to Baptism, or a burning torch, telling of his witness to Christ.
	www.rc.net /northampton/staidan/staidan.html (392 words)

	Parish of St. Cuthbert with St. Aidan, Durham, UK - Our Saints, St. Cuthbert and St. Aidan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Aidan is one of the most important northern saints, although largely for political reasons after his death, he is not as well known as Cuthbert who followed him.
		Aidan promptly gave it away to a poor man, but the friendship of the two recovered.
		Aidan implored God to see what Penda was doing, and the wind changed, driving the fire back to Penda's army, saving the royal castle.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /pcrrn/cuthbert/saints.htm (808 words)

	Orthodoxy’s Western Heritage - Lindisfarne: the Holy Isle, Saint Aidan: First Abbot, Saint Cuthbert: Favored of ...
		When Oswald's successor, King Oswin, gave Aidan a fine horse which he agreed to use in case of a particularly difficult or urgent journey, the saintly Bishop did not hesitate to give it away with all its royal trappings to a beggar who met him with a request for alms.
		His body was initially buried at Lindisfarne, but when, in 664 the monastery accepted the decision of the Whitby Synod to adopt the Roman tradition, Aidan's second successor as abbot, St.
		Cuthbert was Lindisfarne's sixth abbot and manifested a spiritual kinship with its founder.
	www.roca.org /OA/57/57e.htm (1862 words)

	Lindisfarne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lindisfarne is situated off the Northumberland coast in the north east of England, just a few miles south of the border with Scotland.
		Aidan and his monks came from the Irish monastery of Iona and with the support of King Oswald worked as missionaries among the English living in Northumbria.
		Lindisfarne, because it had been the home of St. Aidan and St. Cuthbert, was visited by pilgrims and it was claimed was responsible for several miracles.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPRINGlindisfarne.htm (383 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A native of Ireland, St. Aidan (Aedhan) is said to have studied with St. Senan at Iniscathy before becoming a monk at Iona, where Oswald of Northumbria was in exile.
		In 635, Aidan was consecrated bishop and established his see at Lindisfarne; he chose 12 Northumbrian boys, among them Chad, Cedd, and Eata, to be educated to minister to the people Aidan had converted.
		He was on good terms with Oswald's successor, Oswin, and Aidan died at the royal castle at Bamburgh in 651.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/aidan.html (208 words)

	"The Religious History of Lindisfarne"
		Aidan was an Irish monk from the monastery St.Columba had founded on the island of Iona.
		Aidan began with 12 boys, who of course would learn the practical work of being monks, priests and missionaries by observing and working with the older monks.
		Aidan himself had made sure that it was possible in Northumbria for women to become nuns if they so wished.
	www.lindisfarne.org.uk /general/aidan.htm (1023 words)

	31. august: Den hellige Aidan av Lindisfarne
		Aidan snakket ikke engelsk flytende, og den hellige Beda den Ærverdige, som er så å si vår eneste kilde, skriver at «det var et tiltalende syn å se kongen selv tolke Guds ord til sine stormenn, for han hadde lært det irske språket i sitt lange eksil».
		Aidan hadde stor suksess, mange av innbyggerne i Northumbria ble kristne og kristendommen slo rot.
		Selv om han ikke kunne godta Aidans akseptering og propagandering for den irske måten å beregne påsken på, priser han ham i høye ordelag for hans kjærlighet til bønn, studier, fred, renhet og ydmyket i tillegg til hans omsorg for de syke og fattige.
	www.katolsk.no /biografi/aidan.htm (838 words)

	AGAIN Magazine - Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Aidan lived in the early days of the Church’s missionary expansion into Britain, when pagan kings still fought to exterminate Christianity and the soul of Britain hung in the balance of that struggle.
		Aidan, born in Ireland in about the early seventh century, became a monk on the famous monastic island center in Hii (“Iona” in Latin), off the west coast of Scotland.
		Aidan lived a life rooted in the Scriptures, and he encouraged those traveling with him to spend their time reading the Scriptures and committing the Psalter to memory.
	www.conciliarpress.com /again/index2.php?option=content&task=view&id=77&pop=1&page=0 (1389 words)

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