Statue of St. Aidan in St. Mary's Churchyard beside Lindisfarne Priory, Northumberland

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Statue of St. Aidan in St. Mary's Churchyard beside Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island, Northumberland. Sculptor: Kathleen Parbury, 1958 A roughly modeled figure of the bald headed saint in monk's garb with a torch in his raised left hand and a bronze crook in the right. The shaft of a Celtic cross supports the figures back. The Iona-trained monk and bishop, St. Aidan was invited by King Oswald of Northumbria to convert his subjects to Christianity, and founded the monastic community at Lindisfarne in AD 635.

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Size: 3467px × 5185px
Location: Lindisfarne, Holy Island, Northumberland, England, UK
Photo credit: © Gannet77 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: aidan, england, holy, island, isle, kathleen, kingdom, lindisfarne, northumbria, parbury, priory, sculpture, st, st., statue, uk, united