Aidan of Lindisfarne

Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne
Stained glass at Holy Cross Monastery
Bishop
Born	c. 590 Ireland
Died	(651-08-31)31 August 651 Parish Churchyard, Bamburgh, Northumberland
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Anglican Communion Lutheranism
Major shrine	Originally Lindisfarne Abbey, Northumberland; later disputed between Iona Abbey and Glastonbury Abbey (all destroyed)
Feast	31 August (Eastern Orthodox, Catholic Church, Anglican Communion) 9 June (Lutheran Church)
Attributes	Monk holding a flaming torch stag
Patronage	Northumbria firefighters

Aidan of Lindisfarne^[a] (Irish: Naomh Aodhán; died 31 August 651) was an Irish monk and missionary credited with converting the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in Northumbria. He founded a ministry cathedral on the island of Lindisfarne, known as Lindisfarne Priory, served as its first bishop, and travelled ceaselessly throughout the countryside, spreading the gospel to both the Anglo-Saxon nobility and the socially disenfranchised (including children and slaves).

He is known as the Apostle of Northumbria and is recognised as a saint by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, and others.
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