'216 DURHAM. baptized during his exile, for a priest to teach his people the mysteries, comforts, and promises of the Christian religion ; and 634 AiDAX, celebrated for his piety, zeal, and learning, came on that mission for the propagation of the Gospel, and Lindisfarne or Holy Island was appointed as his seat in 6^^ ; and by his labours the Northumbrians were soon restored to the knowledge and profession of Christianity^. He died 31st Aug. 651, in the seven- teenth year of his episcopate, and was buried at Lin- disfarne, but his body was subsequently removed to York cathedral^. 651 FiNAN, who also came from Scotland, succeeded Aidan as bishop of Lindisfarne 7. Ho built the cathedral at Lindisfarne^, and died in 661^. 662 CoLMAN, the third bishop of Lindisfarne, likewise came hither from Scotland. After holding the see three years he returned into his own country ^0, and was succeeded by his countryman 664 TuDD or TuDA in 664, and who died in the same year of the plague, and was buried in the monastery of Paegnalaech ^ ^ . [Finchale ?] After the death of Tudd, the see of Lmdisfarne icas for fourteen years inerged in the diocese of York. 678 Eata, ahhot of Lindisfarne^ was chosen bishop of this ^ Christianity had been already preached by Paulinus in North- umbria, through the instrument- ahty of Ethelburga, daughter of Ethelbert king of Kent, and wife of Edwin king of Northuinbria; and an episcopal sec had been erected at York, and given to Paulinus, on whom was bestow- ed an archiepiscopal pall. On the fall of Edwin and his army in battle, in the year 633, the apostasy of the Northumbrians from the Christian faith was al- most universal. Beda. ^ Beda, lib. iii. cc. 14 et 17. ' Ibid. cc. 18 et 25. ^ Fecit ecclesiam episcopali se- di congruam quam tamen, more Scottorum, non de lapide, sed de robore secto, totam composuit, atque harundine texit, &c. Beda, lib. iii. c. 25. ^ Beda, lib. iii. c. 25. xiii Cal. Martii. ( 1 7th Feb.)Martyrol.Eccl. Cant. 10 Beda, Hist. Eccl. lib. iii. cc. 25 et 26. n Ibid. c. 27.
