Bede

Bede was born around 672 near the monastery of Wearmouth in Northumbria, in northern England. At the age of seven he was placed in the care of the abbot Benedict Biscop, and he spent the rest of his life at the twin monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow, becoming a deacon at nineteen and a priest at thirty. He seldom traveled, but the monastery's library allowed him to write on many subjects: commentaries on the Bible, a work on the reckoning of time, saints' lives, poetry and grammar. His best-known book, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed around 731, tells the story of the conversion of the English to Christianity and is a main source for early English history. Bede's chronology helped spread the practice of dating events from the birth of Christ, the system of AD dates. He died at Jarrow in 735. He is honored as a saint, called the Venerable Bede, and was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1899.

Bede is also an author in the library: author page and works.

Faith: A priest and monk of the monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow who called himself 'a servant of Christ'. Source: Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)