St Aidan was an Irish monk.The first monk sent to preach in Northumbria, a man named Corman, returned to Iona having had little or no success and complaining that the Northumbrian Saxons were “a savage and unteachable race.” At this Aidan is said to have commented, “Perhaps you were too harsh with them and they might have responded to a gentler approach.” Aidan duly found himself selected to lead a new mission. Oswald gave Aidan the island of Lindisfarne, sometimes called Holy Isle, on which he established a monastery. St.Bede thought very highly of Aidan, perhaps more than of any other saint, and wrote of him:“He neither sought nor loved anything of this world, but delighted in distributing immediately to the poor whatever was given to him by kings or rich men of the world.Aidan died on 31 August 651AD at Bamburgh. His body was taken to Lindisfarne and buried in the cemetery .
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