The Lindisfarne Gospels is one of the treasures of the Christian Church in Northumbria. They were produced in the 7th century at a time which is sometimes called the "Golden Age of Northumbria" when learning and artistic skills were at a peak. This was the age in which the Venerable Bede wrote his "Ecclesiastical History" and in which the great Celtic Saints like Aidan and Cuthbert carried out their missionary work for the conversion of the North.

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