ST AIDAN OF LINDISFARNE - 31st AUGUST
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1. Aidan was a native of Ireland, (then called Scotland) and a monk of Hij, the monastery which St Columba had founded. He was received by king Oswald, who bestowed on him the isle of Lindisfarne.
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2. Of his humility and piety Bede gives an edifying account, and proposes him as an excellent pattern for succeeding bishops and clergymen to follow.
He obliged all who travelled with him either to read the scriptures, or in learning the psalms by heart. #Psalms #Bible #StBede
3. By his actions he showed that he neither sought nor loved the good things of this world.
Bede admires his apostolic liberty in reproving the proud and the great, his love of peace, charity, continence, humility, and all other virtues.
4. Aidan fixed his episcopal see at Lindisfarne, and founded a monastery there in the year of our Lord 635.
St Aidan governed the churches of the Northumbers, till his happy death, which happened on the 31st of August in 651.
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5. When the new church of St Peter was built, his body was translated into it. (Excerpts from Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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