Lindisfarne Priory and in the distance you can see the Castle. The holidays have arrived and the great migration ensues with my family happily joining in; our destination being Northumbria. The ancient Kingdom looms large over Christianity in Britain, having once held lands as far north as the Lothians with Edinburgh certainly deriving its name from this Northumbrian expansion and as far south as the Humber. At the conversion of King St Edwin in 627 AD we see missionary activity begin to convert the pagan Northumbrians with the establishment of York as a Bishopric under the patronage of St Peter. King Edwin would later die in battle and after a time of uncertainty for Christianity Oswald would arrive; having previously fled to Iona for his life, he would return to take up the Crown and bring with him St Aidan. Lindisfarne would become a new centre for missionary activity and Bishopric in the north with St Aidan and his monks walking between Holy Island and the mainland (when tides allowed) to preach and baptise these earliest of Christian ancestors.
In the wake of King St Oswald
In the wake of King St Oswald
In the wake of King St Oswald
Lindisfarne Priory and in the distance you can see the Castle. The holidays have arrived and the great migration ensues with my family happily joining in; our destination being Northumbria. The ancient Kingdom looms large over Christianity in Britain, having once held lands as far north as the Lothians with Edinburgh certainly deriving its name from this Northumbrian expansion and as far south as the Humber. At the conversion of King St Edwin in 627 AD we see missionary activity begin to convert the pagan Northumbrians with the establishment of York as a Bishopric under the patronage of St Peter. King Edwin would later die in battle and after a time of uncertainty for Christianity Oswald would arrive; having previously fled to Iona for his life, he would return to take up the Crown and bring with him St Aidan. Lindisfarne would become a new centre for missionary activity and Bishopric in the north with St Aidan and his monks walking between Holy Island and the mainland (when tides allowed) to preach and baptise these earliest of Christian ancestors.