Saint Aiden founded the Priory at Lindisfarne in 634 AD. Aiden was an Irish Monk who came to Northumbria of King Oswald to convert the Northumbrians to Christianity. Saint Aiden converted the Anglo-Saxon pagens with "...the milk of gentle doctrine, to bring them by degrees, while nourishing them with the Divine Word, to the true understanding and practice of the more advanced precepts." Any money he and his brothers received from the great and powerful was distributed to the poor and so earned a reputation of pious and humble charity. He died in 651.