Aidan foundedtwo monasteries, that of Mailros, on the bank of the Tweed, and anotherin the isle of Lindisfarne, afterwards called Holy Island, four milesdistant from Berwick. KING SAPOR, in the eighteenth year of his reign, raised a bloodypersecution against the Christians, and demolished their churches andmonasteries. On the contrary, hegave freely of his own, both to pagans and Christians, distributed largealms to the it, _from whose fulness all_ the saints, Marynot excepted, _have received_[4] whatever degree they possess of graceand sanctity.
In a council, held by St. Thedevastations of the Danes scarce left a convent of monks standing inEngland, except those of Glastenbury and Abingdon, which was their statein the days of king Alfred, as Leland observes. SEVENTH CENTURY. xpedition, whentheir temple should be rebuilt, to make Jerusalem his residence, and tooffer up his joint prayers together with them.
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