Lindisfarne (also known as "Holy Island") is a tidal island located off the east coast of the United Kingdom. It's known for a Christian monastery founded in the 7th century that suffered a Viking ...

The most beautiful product of this time was the Lindisfarne Gospels. St Aidan, coming from Iona, had founded a monastery on the island in the early 7th century and the Gospels were created in 715–720 ...

Monument To St Cuthbert Unveiled At Lindisfarne Monastery. A new monument to St Cuthbert - one of Britain’s holiest of saints - has been unveiled at the Lindisfarne monastery in Northumberland.

The first monastery at Lindisfarne was started by a monk called Aidan, in 635 AD.' 'He built it for Oswald, the Saxon king of Northumbria, who had become a Christian.' 'Early monasteries weren't ...

An archaeologist carefully exposes a burial on the site of the early medieval monastery on Lindisfarne. The site also includes the remains of early buildings and religious sculptures (photo credit ...

You are in: Tyne > Coast > Lindisfarne - the 'Holy Island' Abandoned monastery on Lindisfarne On the tidal island of Lindisfarne the causeway is uncovered twice a day, and twice a day again ...

Lindisfarne is one of the most important sites ... and gifted him and his followers the island so they could found their monastery. Whether the island's Christian roots will play a part in 28 ...

In 793, Viking armies raided Lindisfarne, destroying Cuthbert’s shrine and most of the monastery. The monks fled, taking Cuthbert’s body and as many books as they could carry, including the ...

BBC Countryfile explained: “In 635 AD, King Oswald of Northumbria invited St Aidan from the monastic settlement on Iona to found a monastery on Lindisfarne. “Aidan’s death, 16 years later ...

The previous monastery had been settled by Irish monks ... pilgrimage centre and led to the illuminated manuscript – the Lindisfarne Gospels – being produced. St Cuthbert was later moved ...

The ancient ruins of Lindisfarne Priory Courtesy English Heritage ... date from a much later phase of the monastery founded around 634 AD. The church was rebuilt several times after most of ...

He was the inspiration behind the Lindisfarne Gospels, created in the early 8th century in a monastery on the tidal island of Lindisfarne, where he had served as prior and then bishop. The ...