Holy Island
a name for Ireland, from the number of saints in its calendar. Also Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, because of the monks that formerly flocked thither. Also the island of Rügen, so named by Varini. Also a name now generally given to Lindisfarne, on the coast of Northumberland, where the famous St. Cuthbert ruled over a Saxon abbey founded 635. It is a peninsula insulated at high tide.