Bede was probably born in Monkton, Durham. Nothing is known of his family background. At the age of seven he was entrusted to the care of Benedict Biscop, who is 674 AD had founded the monastery ...

Wikimedia CommonsThe Venerable Bede, an English monk and missionary, was among the earliest writers to record the existence of Yule. To the ancient Vikings and other Germanic peoples, many of whom ...

Dr Michael Ramsey was on a visit to St Paul’s Church in Jarrow in 1973. He gave a speech which was relayed by loudspeaker to ...

Buried in the cathedral along with St Cuthbert is the Venerable Bede. Bede was born around AD 673 near Monkwearmouth, now part of Sunderland, and spent his early years at the monastery founded ...

In the third episode of their series, Mary and Irina explore the much-chronicled life of St Cuthbert, as told by the most famous writer of the early medieval period, the so-called Venerable Bede. From ...

After interviewing academics and historians who directed me towards amusing Anglo-Saxons and medieval mirth-makers, I ended giving the award to the Venerable Bede (writing in the 8th Century ...

Candlemas closes the Christmas season. Bede pulled together threads from a network connecting Jesus’s birth and the redemptive sacrifice on the Cross making the new covenant adumbrated by the ...