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Bede
Bede (BEED; Old English: Bǣda[ˈbæːdɑ], Bēda[ˈbeːdɑ]; /3&#;&#; 26 May ), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Latin: Beda Venerabilis), was a monk and an early historian of the church in England.
He was a member of the sister Northumbrianmonasteries of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow. He spent a great deal of time at Jarrow with its large library. Both were in the Englishcounty of Durham (now Tyne and Wear).
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He is well known as an author and scholar, whose best-known work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The father of English history".
Life
[change | change source]Bede became respectfully known as Venerable Bede soon after his death, but this was not linked to consideration for sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church.
Bede himself said he was born in and on the lands of the monastery of Wearmouth.[1] At age seven he was presente