St Aidan of Lindisfarne (the Apostle of Northumbria) is one of the saints celebrated today by Catholics everywhere. Here is something on this saint taken from Wikipedia:
- an Irishman - possibly born in Connacht
- a monk at the monastery on the Island of Iona in Scotland- sent as missionary to the kingdom of Northumbria
- founder and first bishop of the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne (close to the royal fortress of Bamburgh) in England
- by patiently talking to the people on their own level Aidan and his monks slowly restored Christianity to the Northumbrian communities.
- also took in English boys to train at the monastery in order to ensure that the area's future religious leadership would be English
- died on August 31 651 in the 17th year of his episcopate - died leaning against the buttress of a church on a royal estate near Bamburgh
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