Bede
Anglo-Saxon monk, writer and saint (672/3-735) · United Kingdom · Writers · Died at 63
Bede is read about 1,079 times a day, in 69 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?An eighth-century monk who gave the English-speaking world its founding history and taught medieval Europe to count years from the birth of Christ. His Ecclesiastical History remains the single most important source for understanding how England became Christian - and became England.
A life in dates
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, Now must we hymn the Master of heaven, The might of the Maker, the deeds of the Father, The thought of His heart.
About this person
Born around 672 on monastery lands in Northumbria, Bede entered Monkwearmouth at seven and moved to Jarrow under Abbot Ceolfrith. In 686 a plague killed most of the population there; he and Ceolfrith survived. He spent nearly his entire life within those walls, writing biblical commentaries, works on computus (the science of calculating calendar dates), and above all the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which earned him the title "Father of English History." He helped popularize Anno Domini dating - counting forward from Christ's birth - a practice that became standard across medieval Europe. As a linguist and translator he made Greek and Latin Church Fathers accessible to his Anglo-Saxon contemporaries, shaping English Christianity from the inside. He died May 26, 735. A cult formed by the tenth century; his remains were moved to Durham Cathedral in 1020, and in 1899 Pope Leo XIII declared him a Doctor of the Church - the first native of Great Britain to receive that rank.
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