Research data linked mainly to the figures of Aidan and Egbert. Includes extracts from primary and secondary sources focused on themes such as teaching, conversion,good judgement, penitence, mercy and pilgrimage particulary in relation to Bede's depiction of the monks at Iona. Elements of this research were published posthumously in 'St Paul and the Sign of Jonah. Theology and Scripture in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum'.