The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish born Aidan, who had been sent from Iona off the west coast of Scotland to Northumbria at the request of King Oswald around AD 635. It became the base for Christian evangelism in the North of England and also sent a successful mission to Mercia.
At some point in the early 700's, the famous illuminated manuscript known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, an illustrated Latin copy of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, was made probably at Lindisfarne. Sometime in the second half of the tenth century a monk named Aldred added an Anglo-Saxon (Old English) gloss to the Latin text, producing the earliest surviving Old English copies of the Gospels.
Lindisfarne is also famous for its castle high atop the rock.
We also went to Bede's World, the site of the former monastery where Bede wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English people.
I don't know quite why but they also have a petting zoo there. (Its part of the village representing monastic life then.)
No comments:
Post a Comment