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::<i>I, Bede, servant of [[Christ]] and priest of the monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul which is at [[Wearmouth]] and [[Jarrow]], have, with the help of [[God]] and to the best of my ability, put together this account of the history of the church of [[Britain]] and of the English people in particular, gleaned either from ancient documents or from tradition or from my own knowledge. I was born in the territory of this monastery. When I was seven years of age I was, by the care of my kinsmen, put into the charge of the reverend [[Benedict Biscop|Abbot Benedict]] and then of [[Ceolfrith]], to be educated. From then on I have spent all my life in this monastery, applying myself entirely to the study of the Scriptures; and, amid the observance of the discipline of the Rule and the daily task of singing in the church, it has always been my delight to learn or to teach or to write. At the age of nineteen I was ordained deacon and at the age of thirty, priest, both times through the ministration of the reverend Bishop John on the direction of Abbot Ceolfrith. From the time I became a priest until the fifty-ninth year of my life I have made it my business, for my own benefit and that of my brothers, to make brief extracts from the works of the venerable fathers on the holy [[Bible|Scriptures]], or to add notes of my own to clarify their sense and interpretation.</i><ref>Bede, <i>The Ecclesiastical History of the English People</i>, ed. and trans. J. McClure and R. Collins (Oxford, 1994), 293.</ref>

::<i>I, Bede, servant of [[Christ]] and priest of the monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul which is at [[Wearmouth]] and [[Jarrow]], have, with the help of [[God]] and to the best of my ability, put together this account of the history of the church of [[Britain]] and of the English people in particular, gleaned either from ancient documents or from tradition or from my own knowledge. I was born in the territory of this monastery. When I was seven years of age I was, by the care of my kinsmen, put into the charge of the reverend [[Benedict Biscop|Abbot Benedict]] and then of [[Ceolfrith]], to be educated. From then on I have spent all my life in this monastery, applying myself entirely to the study of the Scriptures; and, amid the observance of the discipline of the Rule and the daily task of singing in the church, it has always been my delight to learn or to teach or to write. At the age of nineteen I was ordained deacon and at the age of thirty, priest, both times through the ministration of the reverend Bishop John on the direction of Abbot Ceolfrith. From the time I became a priest until the fifty-ninth year of my life I have made it my business, for my own benefit and that of my brothers, to make brief extracts from the works of the venerable fathers on the holy [[Bible|Scriptures]], or to add notes of my own to clarify their sense and interpretation.</i><ref>Bede, <i>The Ecclesiastical History of the English People</i>, ed. and trans. J. McClure and R. Collins (Oxford, 1994), 293.</ref>

As he writes, Bede was entrusted to the care of the Abbot St. Benedict Biscop when he was seven years old. By 685, he was moved to Biscop’s newer monastery of St. Paul at Jarrow<ref>http://www.bedesworld.co.uk/bedesworld-monastic.php</ref>, a few miles to the north on the [[River Tyne]]. He spent the rest of his life as a monk at Jarrow.

As he writes, Bede was entrusted to the care of the Abbot St. Benedict Biscop (d. 689) when he was seven years old, the standard age for child oblates. By 685, Biscop sent Bede to the newer monastery of St. Paul at Jarrow<ref>http://www.bedesworld.co.uk/bedesworld-monastic.php</ref>, a few miles to the north on the [[River Tyne]], where Ceolfrith (d. 716) was abbot. Bede spent the rest of his life as a monk at Jarrow, excepting two short trips to York and Lindisfarne.

 

Bede wrote and taught throughout his life. Among his most important pupils was Egbert (d. 766), who went on to become Archbishop of York.

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