AIDAN, or AEDAN, first bishop of
Lindisfarne, a monk
of
Iona (Hii), was sent by the abbot Senegi to Northumbria
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at the request of King Oswald, A.D. 634-635. He restored
Christianity, and in accordance with the traditions of Irish
episcopacy chose the island of Lindisfarne, close to the royal
city of Bamborough, as his see. Although he retained the Irish
Easter, his character and energy in missionary work won him
the respect of Honorius and Felix. He survived Oswald, and
died shortly after the murder of his friend Oswine of Deira,
on the 31st of August 651, in the 17th year of his episcopate.
See Bede, Hist. Eccl. (ed. Plummer), iii. 3, 5, 17, 25.
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