Lindisfarne Days - the Fifth Day
Boisil - Healer and Teacher Genesis 1:22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth. Saint Boisil, Confessor, was a Northumbrian trained at Lindisfarne Priory by Saint Aidan. He became a monk and quickly rose to be Prior of Melrose Abbey. Bede tells us that the saint was a man of virtues as well as an eminent scholar. He was widely known and sought after for his herbal remedies, and for his blessing of the healing properties of the two local springs containing iron salts. Interestingly, these wells are clearly marked on the OS maps of today - the Wellbury Well in the bank just below his chapel, and the Hare (corruption of ‘Heir’ meaning ‘Holy’)Well which lies near St Boswells...