What Does Bede Mean?
St Bede or Baeda was a historian of English descent, a monk who was also called the Venerable Bede. He was born in Monkton in Jarrow, Northumbria, England in 672/673 and died in 735, in the month of May on the 25th. He was an Anglo Saxon by birth, and soon came to be known as a great theologian, chronologist as well as a learned historian. He was brought up in a monastery, and appointed a priest when he was thirty years old. His most important contribution to ancient English History is “Ecclesiastical History of the English People”. This work traces England’s history right from 55 BC to AD 597. Till date this piece of work is an essential basis for British history. It provides the most detailed and dependable description of the victory of Christianity and the expansion of Anglo-Saxon civilization in Britain. Well respected in the church, Bede was formally made a saint in the year 1899 and was given the name of Doctor of the Church, the only British citizen to be given this honour.
