Have you ever crossed the causeway to Lindisfarne Priory? 🌊 Lindisfarne – or Holy Island – is one of the most important places in early English Christianity. Irish monks first settled here in AD 635, and it soon became the centre of a powerful saint’s cult dedicated to its bishop, Cuthbert. It was also the birthplace of the beautiful Lindisfarne Gospels in the early 8th century. The ruins you see today belong to a 12th-century priory, built by monks who saw themselves as the direct successors o