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St. Bede
St. Bede Anglo-Saxon theologian, historian, and chronologist St. Bede the Venerable.

St. Bede the Venerable

Anglo-Saxon historian
Also known as: Bede of Jarrow, Saint Baeda the Venerable, Saint Beda the Venerable, the Venerable Bede(Show More)
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St. Bede the Venerable (born 672/673, traditionally Monkton in Jarrow, Northumbria [England]—died May 25, 735, Jarrow; canonized 1899; feast day May 25) was an Anglo-Saxon theologian, historian, and chronologist. St. Bede is best known for his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (“Ecclesiastical History of the English People”), a source vital to the history of the conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon tribes. Nothing is known of Bede’s parentage. At the age of seven he was taken...

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