Definition of bede Bede
/biˈd/ - [beed] - Bede
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What does bede mean?
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| bede - (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735) | ||
| Saint Bede, St. Bede, Baeda, Saint Baeda, St. Baeda, Beda, Saint Beda, St. Beda, the Venerable Bede | ||
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- bede (v. t.)
To pray; also, to offer; to proffer. - bede (n.)
A kind of pickax.
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Bede (also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) "Beda"), (ca. 672 or 673 – May 27, 735), was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at "Wearmouth", today part of "Sunderland", and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern "Jarrow" (see "Wearmouth-Jarrow)", both in the English county of Durham (now Tyne and Wear). He is well known as an author and scholar, whose best-known work, "Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum" ("The Ecclesiastical History of the English People") gained him the title "The father of English history".
Name.
Bede became respectfully known as "Venerable Bede" soon after his death, but this was not linked to consideration for sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church.
Life.
Almost all that is known of Bede's life is contained in a notice added by himself when he was 59 to his "Historia" (v.24), which states that he was placed in the monastery at Wearmouth at the age of seven, that he became deacon in his nineteenth year, and priest in his thirtieth, remaining a priest for the rest of his life.
Work.
His works show that he had at his command all the learning of his time. It was thought that the library at Wearmouth-Jarrow was between 300-500 books, making it one of the largest and most extensive in England.
"Historia Ecclesiastica".
The most important and best known of his works is the "Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum," giving in five books and 400 pages the history of England, ecclesiastical and political, from the time
