Saint John of Beverley

Saint John of Beverley (born, Harpham, Yorkshire, Northumbria—died May 7, 721, Beverley, Yorkshire) was a bishop of York, and one of the most popular medieval English saints. After studies at St. Augustine’s Monastery, Canterbury, Kent, under the celebrated abbot St. Adrian, John entered Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire. In 687 he succeeded St. Eata as bishop of Hexham, Northumberland, and in 705 was consecrated bishop of York. He founded a monastery at Inderawood, later called Beverley, where...