Aidan of Lindisfarne


Aidan of Lindisfarne
Stained glass at Holy Cross Monastery
Bishop
Bornc. 590
Ireland
Died(651-08-31)31 August 651
Parish Churchyard, Bamburgh, Northumberland
Venerated in
Major shrineOriginally Lindisfarne Abbey, Northumberland; later disputed between Iona Abbey and Glastonbury Abbey (all destroyed)
Feast
  • 31 August (Eastern Orthodox, Catholic Church, Anglican Communion)
  • 9 June (Lutheran Churchmarsh)
Attributes
  • Monk holding a flaming torch
  • stag
Patronage

Aidan of Lindisfarne[a] (Irish: Naomh Aodhán; died 31 August 651) was an Irish monk and missionary credited with converting the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in Northumbria. He founded a ministry cathedral on the island of Lindisfarne, known as Lindisfarne Priory, served as its first bishop, and travelled ceaselessly throughout the countryside, spreading the gospel to both the Anglo-Saxon nobility and the socially disenfranchised (including children and slaves).

He is known as the Apostle of Northumbria and is recognised as a saint by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, and others.
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