ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 31st of August WELCOME! SAINT AIDAN OF LINDISFARNE, BISHOP Aidan was a native of Ireland, (then called Scotland,) and a monk of Hij, the great monastery which his countryman, St Columba, had founded. He was received by king Oswald, who bestowed on him the isle of Lindisfarne. HE OBLIGED THOSE WHO TRAVELLED WITH HIM TO READ THE SCRIPTURES OR TO SPEND THE TIME LEARNING THE PSALMS BY HEART Of his humility and piety Bede gives an edifying account, and proposes him as an excellent pattern for succeeding bishops and clergymen to follow. He obliged all those who travelled with him, to bestow their time either in reading the scriptures, or in learning the psalms by heart. By his actions he showed that he neither sought nor loved the good things of this world; the presents which were made him by the king, or by other rich men, he distributed among the poor, or expended in redeeming captives. Bede admires his apostolic l...