SAINT BEDE THE VENERABLE Priest & Doctor of the Church (673-735) - May 25
TruroCathedral The Victorian stained glass windows of Truro Cathedral are arguably its greatest treasure. They were designed by Clayton and Bell of London who followed a plan devised by Bishop Benson, the first Bishop of Truro (1877-1883).SAINT BEDE THE VENERABLE Priest & Doctor of the Church
(673-735) Venerable Bede, the illustrious ornament of the Anglo-Saxon Church and the first English historian, was consecrated -to God at the age of seven, and intrusted to the care of St. Benedict Biscop at Wearmouth. He became a monk in the sister-house of Jarrow, and there trained no less than six hundred scholars, whom his piety, learning, and sweet disposition had gathered round him.
To the toils of teaching and the exact observance of his rule he added long hours of private prayer, and the study of every branch of science and literature then known. He was familiar with Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. In the treatise which he …More