Aidan of Lindisfarne

Saint

Aidan of Lindisfarne
Saint; Aidan of Lindisfarne
	Stained glass at Holy Cross Monastery
Bishop
Born	c. 590; Ireland
Died	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 Churchmarsh);
Attributes	Monk holding a flaming torch; stag;
Patronage	Northumbria; firefighters;

Aidan of Lindisfarne (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.