Lindisfarne castle, Holy Island, Northumberland, England, UK

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Lindisfarne castle, Holy Island, Northumberland, England, UK. An island separated from the mainland by high tides and reached by a causeway at low tide. Lindisfarne was the name given to the Island by the first Anglo-Saxons to live here and we do not know the meaning of the word. But the monks of Durham, after the Norman conquest, added the words Holy Island when they looked back over the story which began with the coming of Saint Aidan and the building of the first monastery in 635AD, continued with the ministry of the "very popular" Saint Cuthbert and then received a staggering blow from the Viking attack in 793. Both to the Durham monks who died as Christian marytrs in this pagan attack and the earlier saints made the Island was deservedly named "holy"

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Location: Lindisfarne castle, Holy Island, Northumberland, England, UK
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