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AIDAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 435 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AIDAN  , or tEDAN, first

bishop of Lindisfarne, a monk of
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Hii (
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Iona), was sent by the abbot Senegi to Northumbria, at the request of King Oswald, A.D . 634-635• He restored
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Christianity, and in accordance with the traditions of Irish episcopacy chose the island of Lindisfarne; close to the royal city of Bamborough, as his see . Although he retained the Irish
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Easter, his character and energy in missionary
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work won him the respect of Honorius and Felix . He survived Oswald, and died shortly after the
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murder of his friend Oswine of
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Deira, on the 31st of August 651, in the 17th
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year of his episcopate . See Bede, Hist . Eccl . (ed . Plummer), iii . 3, 5, 17, 25 . AIDE-DE-CAMP (Fr. for camp-assistant or, perhaps, field-assistant), an officer of the
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personal staff of a general, who acts as his confidential secretary in routine matters . In
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Great Britain the office of aide-de-camp to the king is given as a
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reward or an honorary distinction . In many
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foreign armies the word adjutant is used for an aide-de-camp, and adjutant general for a royal aide-de-camp .

The

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common abbreviation for aide-de-camp in the
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British service is " A.D.C.," and in the
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United States "aid."
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Civil
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governors, such as the lord
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lieutenant of Ireland, have also, as a
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rule,
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officers on their staffs with the title and functions of aides-de-camp .

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