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He resigned his see and quitted Holy Island, followed
by all the Scotic brethren of the monastery and about
thirty Northumbrian members of the community. He
eventually founded a monastery in Ireland, where he
died in 676. Before leaving Northumbria he besought
of Oswy that he would appoint as head of
the brethren who remained one who had been a
disciple of Aidan. The king consented, and Eata
became abbot of Lindisfarne. Tuda was appointed,
probably before the end of 664, as Colman's successor
in the bishopric, " a good man and a religious,"
but his episcopate was a brief one. He was carried
off by the Yellow Pest, as it was called, which was
fatal both to " high and low, not sparing the king of
the Kentishmen, nor the Archbishop of Canterbury
himself." Cedd also died at Lastingham in this same
year, a victim probably to the same disease.
With the Synod of AVhitby " we bid farewell to the
old Scotic Church of Northumbria. It could not but
pass away, for it could not provide what Northumbria
then needed : it had but a temporary mission, but that
mission it fulfilled with a rare simplicity of purpose.
It brought religion straight home to men's hearts by
sheer power of love and self-sacrifice ; it held up
before them, in the unconscious goodness and nobleness
of its representatives, the moral evidence for
Christianity ; it made them feel what it was to be
taught and cared for in the life spiritual by pastors
who, before all things, were the disciples and ministers
of Christ, whose chief and type was a St.
Aidan."i
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Bright's "Early English Charch Historj'," p. 204.