Bede

Bede says that, before consecrating her life to religion, "she had lived thirty-three years very nobly among her family."

To point the student to Bede's works, and to indicate their historic teachings, is all that can be here accomplished.

And scarce was his task well finished when, like his great predecessor Bede, the brave old priest laid down his life.

Several relics of Bede are preserved in the church, among them the rude, uncomfortable chair he is said to have used.