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Holy Island

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Holy Island or Lin·dis·farne  (lnds-färn)
An island off the coast of northeast England near the Scottish border. At low tide the island is connected with the mainland by a stretch of sand. Saint Aidan (died 651) established Celtic Christianity in England by founding a monastery here in 635. Danes destroyed the settlement in 793.
Holy Island
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1. (Placename) an island off the NE coast of Northumberland, linked to the mainland by road but accessible only at low water: site of a monastery founded by St Aidan in 635 Also called Lindisfarne
2. (Placename) an island off the NW coast of Anglesey. Area: about 62 sq. km (24 sq. miles)


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Cuthbert, who lived in the seventh century, stretches from Melrose in Scotland, 40 miles south of Edinburgh, across the border into northeast England to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, on the Northumberland coast.
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