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[[Image:Saintbede.jpg|right|thumb|250px| St. Bede the Venerable]]

[[Image:Saintbede.jpg|right|thumb|250px| St. Bede the Venerable]]

'''Bede the Venerable''' (b. 673; died 735)  was an [[Anglo-Saxon]] monk and scholar who lived at the Northumbrian monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow. Among his writings were the most widely read exegetical and didactic treatises of the Middle Ages. His <i>Ecclesiastical History of the English People</i>, sometimes called "the finest historical work of the Middle Ages," <ref>[http://www.britannia.com/bios/bede.html The Venerable Bede] Britannia Biographies</ref> has become the single most important source for early Anglo-Saxon history. His other works included widely used chronological treatises and several important pieces of hagiography.  

'''Bede the Venerable''' (b. 673/4; died 735)  was an [[Anglo-Saxon]] monk and scholar who lived at the Northumbrian monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow. Among his writings were the most widely read exegetical and didactic treatises of the Middle Ages. His <i>Ecclesiastical History of the English People</i>, sometimes called "the finest historical work of the Middle Ages," <ref>[http://www.britannia.com/bios/bede.html The Venerable Bede] Britannia Biographies</ref> has become the single most important source for early Anglo-Saxon history. His other works included widely used chronological treatises and several important pieces of hagiography.  

Bede was made [[Doctor of the Church]] by Pope Leo XIII in 1899.

Bede was made [[Doctor of the Church]] by Pope Leo XIII in 1899.