Yesterday (August 31st) was the memoria of St Aidan and the Saints of Lindisfarne, who have a special significance for the Church here in the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle. The kingdom of Northumbria first embraced Christianity under St Edwin (d. 632/3) and his Kentish wife Æthelburga, but the conversion never went far beyond the [...]
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St Aidan of Lindisfarne
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anglo-Saxon, Celtic on September 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
