biography
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Bede or Baeda, St
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known as the Venerable Bede
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| lived:
| (c.673–735)
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| biography:
| Anglo-Saxon scholar, theologian, and historian, born near Monkwearmouth, Durham, NE England. At the age of seven he was placed in the care of Benedict Biscop at the monastery of Wearmouth, and in 682 moved to the new monastery of Jarrow in Durham, where he was ordained priest in 703 and remained a monk for the rest of his life, studying and teaching. His devotion to Church discipline was exemplary and his industry enormous. He wrote homilies, lives of saints, lives of abbots, hymns, epigrams, works on chronology, grammar and physical science, and commentaries on the Old and New Testaments; and he translated the Gospel of St John into Anglo-Saxon just before his death. His greatest work was his Latin Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), which he finished in 731, and which is the single most valuable source for early English history. He was buried at Jarrow but in the 11th-c his bones were removed to Durham. He was canonized in 1899; feast day 25 May. |
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