bishoprics in London and Rochester, but attempts to persuade the Celtic
bishops to submit to his authority failed. After his death on 26 May 604
Augustine was soon revered as a Saint.
27 May The Venerable Bede (also referred to as St Bede)
Lived 672/73 to 26 May 735
Bede was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of St Peter at
Monkwearmouth near Newcastle. He was of
noble birth and entered the monastery aged 7 to
be educated. In 682 he moved to St Paul’s at
Jarrow, both monasteries had superb libraries
and Bede was known as a scholar and prolific
author in Latin. He translated the early Church
Fathers and contributed significantly to the
English Church. His most famous work is The
Ecclesiastical History of the English People,
completed in 731, which gained him the title
‘Father of English History’ His non-historical
works on grammar, chronology and biblical
studies contributed greatly to the Carolingian
Renaissance. He was Priest to Saint Cuthbert
who described Bede’s death in a letter. He died
at Jarrow on 26 May 735 and was buried there.
In 1899 he was made a ‘Doctor of the Church’, the only native Britain to receive
that title.
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