The Durham historian Simeon said of the men who made the Gospels,

“These persons, influenced alike by their affection for this confessor and
bishop (Cuthbert) beloved of God, left in this work a monument to all
future ages of their devotion towards him.”

This book was always called St Cuthbert’s book, only later Librarians called it the Lindisfarne Gospels because it had been written on Lindisfarne.

Lindisfarne or Holy Island lies off the Northumbrian coast near the Royal burgh of Bamburgh. A monastery was established there by St Aidan from Iona in Scotland at the invitation of the Northumbrian Christian King Oswald.
It was isolated twice a day by the high tide, but it was not remote.It was an easy boat trip away from one of the main Centre of the Kingdom of Northumbria, Bamburgh. The Kings had influence from the Hebrides in Western Scotland to the English Channel. Northumbrian Nobles and Churchmen travelled to Gaul and Rome.They brought back Books and craftsmen who could work in Glass and cement.

St Cuthbert had been Bishop of Lindisfarne. He was popular because of his preaching and the simplicity of his life. Because of his gift of seeing the future and because his body was found to be incorrupt years after his death. People visited his shrine and miracles were credited to him.

The gospel was closely identified with Cuthbert who was the patron saint of the North and possibly the first patron saint in England. His shrine at Durham was visited by pilgrims and most of the Kings of England from the 10th Century to the Reformation. St Cuthbert`s banner was carried into battle against the Scots for centuries, and “never was displayed but that it brought home the victory.