page_title: List of Northumbrian saints
section_title: Saints
hierarchical_section_title: List of Northumbrian saints / Saints
caption_attribution_description: English: Monastic Chapel 1920, Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, New York. This is the Christian saint Aidan in stained glass form. He was born in Ireland and helped spread Christianity in Great Britain, especially in Northumbria. He is a possible candidate for patron saint of Great Britain.
context_page_description: This list of Northumbrian saints includes Christian saints with strong connections to the medieval Kingdom of Northumbria, either because they were of local origin and ethnicity or because they travelled to Northumbria from their own homeland and became noted in their hagiography for work there. Northumbria existed from the 7th–10th centuries in what is now northern England, along with areas of the Scottish Borders and the Lothian. Its chief ecclesiastical centre was York.
  During the reign of king Oswald of Northumbria, an Irish monk Aidan was invited to reconvert the area to Christianity. He and other Irish monks achieved this and subsequently the Northumbrians helped to reconvert much of the rest of England and also parts of the European continent.
caption: Saint Aidan
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