Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . ancing of which he left Ins Station in Kent, andcoming to Northumberland, challenged the Bishop to a Bishop answered, that he would not refuse to dispute, butthat he would admit of no alteration in Church Rites, whilst helived; and so for the time that he sat Bishop, Easter was cele-brated after the ancient manner of the Scots. Finanus, in themeantime, Converted the East Saxons and Mercians. HavingBaptized Penda, the Prince of Mercia, he sent with him fourPreachers, who reformed all that part of the country. Divina orDuina, a Scotchman, was o
Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . ancing of which he left Ins Station in Kent, andcoming to Northumberland, challenged the Bishop to a Bishop answered, that he would not refuse to dispute, butthat he would admit of no alteration in Church Rites, whilst helived; and so for the time that he sat Bishop, Easter was cele-brated after the ancient manner of the Scots. Finanus, in themeantime, Converted the East Saxons and Mercians. HavingBaptized Penda, the Prince of Mercia, he sent with him fourPreachers, who reformed all that part of the country. Divina orDuina, a Scotchman, was one of those Preachers, and was Con-secrated Bishop by Finanus in the year 656. In the Catalogue FINAN—LINDISFARNE PRIORY. 59 of the Bishops of Lichfield, he is first placed. There succeededto him Kellach, a Scotchman also; but he, renouncing his charge,because of the contentions that arose, returned to his own , having governed the Churches of Northumberland thespace of ten years, Died in Lindisfarne, and was Buried in a. EUINS OF LINDISFAKNE PRIOKY. Church which he himself had there erected. After the mannerof the Scots, he made]: it, not of stone, but of hewn rock, andcovered it with reeds ;T and the same day it was dedicated inhonour of the Apostle S. Peter, by Abp. Theodore. Bp. Eadbertafterward took off thea thatch, and covered both walls and roofwith plates of lead. [Spottiswoode, pp. 28-29.] 60 EARLY BISHOPS IN SCOTLAND. The remains of this Priory (as shown in the Cut), situated off the coast ofNorthumberland, are singularly beautiful in their ruin. Sir Walter Scott hasdescribed the whole as forming A solemn, huge, and dark red pile,Placd on the margin of the Isle, and which, it is to be feared, will be lost to the next generation, notwithstandingthe care that is said to have been of late years bestowed on them. The materialis a soft red freestone, which wastes rapidly under the action of the says— Which place, as the tide flows and ebbs tw
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