5/22/2023 0 Comments History of the english church bede![]() ![]() Celebrating the offices of the canonical day itself was an arduous, time-consuming, and endless cycle. ![]() The routine of the abbey day seems designed to deaden rather than awaken intellectual curiosity. It is, in fact, for his monumental Ecclesiastical History of the English People that Bede is best remembered. While many of his 60 works are biblical commentaries, he also wrote on natural history, science, poetry, and history. Certainly, Bede's intellectual range went much further than the Bible itself. In truth, the humble monk's studies encompassed a wide range of disciplines, including astronomy, classical languages, medicine, and seemingly everything else his imagination and resources would allow. ![]() I have spent all the remainder of my life in this monastery and devoted myself entirely to the study of Scriptures. 'I was born on the lands of the monastery, he later wrote, and on reaching seven years of age, I was entrusted by my family first to the reverend Abbot Benedict and later to Abbot Ceolfrith for my education. The 12-year-old Bede was present at the consecration of the new church on 23rd April 685. ![]()
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