ST. BEDE THE VENERABLE (MAY 27TH)
St. Bede the Venerable, Icon by Aidan Hart Edited by Bp. Joseph (Ancient Church of the West) St. Bede (AD 672 - 735), also known as The Venerable Bede and Bede the Venerable. He was an English monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles. Born on lands belonging to the twin monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow in present-day Tyne and Wear, Bede was sent to Monkwearmouth at the age of seven and later joined Abbot Ceolfrith at Jarrow. Both of them survived a plague that struck in AD 686 and killed a majority of the population there. While Bede spent most of his life in the monastery, he travelled to several abbeys and monasteries across the British Isles, even visiting the archbishop of York and King Ceolwulf of Northumbria. A Medieval Icon of St. Bede Writing the "Ecclesiastical History" The Frontispiece from a 17th Century Edition of the "Ecclesiastical History" A Printed Page in Latin from an E...
