Ceolfrith
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Saint Ceolfrid was an Anglo-Saxon Christian abbot and saint. He is best known as the warden of Bede from the age of seven until his death in 716. He was the Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and a
Remains of St Paul's Monastery, Jarrow, where Ceolfrid was Abbot.
One of the few surviving pages from the Ceolfrid Bible, one of three versions of the Vulgate Bible created in Wearmouth and Jarrow under Ceolfrid at the turn of the eighth century. British Library, London.
Portrait of Ezra from the Codex Amiatinus in the Laurentian Library, Florence.
Bede
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Bede, OSB, also known as the Venerable Bede or Bede the Venerable, was an English Benedictine monk, author and scholar. He was one of the best known writers during the Early Middle Ages, and his most
Ceolfrith
…Ceolfrid (or Ceolfrith, Old English: , also Geoffrey; c. 642 – 716) was an Anglo-Saxon Christian abbot and saint. He is best known as the warden of Bede from the age of seven until his death in 716. He was the Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and a major contributor to the project to produce the…
The Venerable Bede writing. Detail from a 12th-century codex.
Stained glass at Gloucester Cathedral depicting Bede dictating to a scribe
Bede's tomb in the Galilee Chapel at the west end of Durham Cathedral
The Venerable Bede writing the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, from a 12th-century codex at Engelberg Abbey, Switzerland