Lindisfarne (also known as "Holy Island") is a tidal island located ... of a cult following among medieval Christians. The monk St. Bede (A.D. 672-735) wrote that St. Cuthbert "laboured far ...

Sometime around the turn of the 8th century, on Lindisfarne, a windswept island off the ... nearly 200 years, a monk named Aldred carefully added a translation of the gospel text in Old English ...

had founded a monastery on the island in the early 7th century and the Gospels were created in 715–720 by a monk called Eadfrith, who became Lindisfarne’s bishop. He seems to have undertaken them in ...

Lindisfarne, known as Holy Island ... The survival of the Gospels is near-miraculous. Lindisfarne, for all its beauty, is a crime scene. In 793 AD, Vikings descended on the island, killed the ...

Added to the standard celestial gifts of healing, asceticism and clairvoyance, Cuthbert, a 7th century holy man and ... inspiration behind the Lindisfarne Gospels, created in the early 8th century in ...

Lindisfarne Priory Northumberland was the birthplace of the Lindisfarne Gospels ... Holy Island relates to the presence of ...

A major dig is to take place on Holy Island to find the monastery where the Lindisfarne Gospels were made ... founded in 635 AD by Irish monk Aidan, is of great importance in the history of ...

New Generation Thinker David Petts from Durham University shares his findings on Holy Island ... And as the gospels produced by Eadfrith, a monk at Lindisfarne who became bishop in c.

In the late 7th century (if this was a film your screen would now go wobbly) a monk called Eadfrith was living on Lindisfarne, aka Holy Island. He got cracking on the gospels and can’t have ...

a thriving community of around 200 people lives on Holy Island today. Lindisfarne is known as the cradle of Christianity in our region. An Irish monk, St Aidan, founded Lindisfarne Monastery in ...

Close examination has shown that this awe-inspiring work of the Lindisfarne Gospels’ script and illustrations was undertaken by one artist-scribe, whom the 10th century monk Aldred identified as ...

It is at present on show at Bede's World, Jarrow, until January 30. The Lindisfarne Gospels were created in the early 700s on the island of Lindisfarne and are thought to be the work of one man ...