St. Bede, the Venerable, Confessor, Doctor–W (III) – St. John I, Pope, Martyr–R (Comm.)

Bede was an English monk at the monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and its companion monastery, Saint Paul’s, in modern Jarrow (see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow), County Durham, both of which were then in the Kingdom of Northumbria. He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, “Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum” (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title “The Father of English History.”