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Bede

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kingdom of Northumbria

Died

May 10, 0735

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History, Theology, Hagiography

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born perhaps 673

Saxon theologian Bede, also Baeda or Beda, known as "the Venerable Bede," wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation , a major work and an important ancient source, in 731 in Latin and introduced the method from the birth of Jesus of dating events.

People referred to Saint Bede, a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and at its companion of Saint Paul in modern Jarrow in the kingdom, for more than a millennium before canonization. Most fame of this well author and scholar gained him the title as "the father.”

In 1899, Leo XIII, pope, made Bede a doctor of the Church, a position of significance; only this native of Great Britain achieved this designation; from Italy, Saint Anselm of Ca ...more

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	Ecclesiastical History of the English People 3.83 avg rating — 4,875 ratings — published 731 — 440 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Bede by Bede, Brendan of Clonfert, Eddius Stephanus 3.78 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 1965 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/The Greater Chronicle/Letter to Egbert by Bede, Roger Collins (Editor), Judith McClure (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 167 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert by Bede, Simon Webb (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecclesiastical History of the English People: with Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthbert's Letter on the Death of Bede by Bede, Leo Sherley-Price (Translator) 3.99 avg rating — 89 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lives of the Saints by Bede, Eddius Stephanus, J.F. Webb (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Historical Works of the Venerable Bede 4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2009 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecclesiastical History, Volume 1, Books I-III by Bede, John E. King (Translator) 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 731 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Venerable Bedes Ecclesiastical History Of England: Also The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Bede, Various, John Allen Giles (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2015 — 113 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecclesiastical History, Volume 2: Books 4-5: Lives of the Abbots / Letter to Egbert by Bede, John E. King (Translator) 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1962 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire blazes in the midst and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter to winter again. So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.”
― St. Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People

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“As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome will fall; when Rome falls, the whole world will fall.”
― Venerable Bede

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“It has ever been my delight to learn or to teach or to write.”
― Bede the Venerable

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