Bede

American  

[beed] / bid /

noun

1. Saint the Venerable Bede, a.d. 673?–735, English monk, historian, and theologian: wrote earliest history of England.

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Bede British  

/ biːd /

noun

1. Latin name: Baeda.  Saint , known as the Venerable Bede . ?673–735 _ad , English monk, scholar, historian, and theologian, noted for his Latin Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731). Feast day: May 27 or 25

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Bede seems often to have known no more than we do today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Because of this tangled ownership history, many Bede scholars had considered the manuscript lost since 1975.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026

Rail services were stopped between Bede and South Shields for more than an hour after flooding on the line at Tyne Dock.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2023

During that time, St. Bede opened a transitional kindergarten classroom and expanded foreign language classes from only two grades to a curriculum now spanning transitional kindergarten through eighth grade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2023

When Bede wrote a history of the church in Britain, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, he used the new calendar.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife