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Bede (other)
Bede may refer to People *Bede (Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede) (672 or 673 – May 27, 735), a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Wearmouth *Alain Bédé (born 1970), Ivorian footballer *Boris Bede (born 1989), French player of gridiron football *Shelda Bede (born 1973), a beach volleyball player from Brazil who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics *Bede Griffiths (1906–1993), a British-born Benedictine monk and mystic who lived in ashrams in South India *Jim Bede (1933–2015), aircraft designer, often credited with the creation of the modern kitplane market *Olga Bede (1908–1985), a Romanian Magyar writer from Transylvania Places Canada; *Bede, Manitoba, a locality in Manitoba, Canada. Schools *Venerable Bede Church of England Academy in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England *St. Bede Academy in Peru, Illinois, USA *St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai, India *St Bede's Catholic College in Bristol, England *St Bede's Catholic High School, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bede
Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles (contemporarily Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey in Tyne and Wear, England). Born on lands belonging to the twin monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow in present-day Tyne and Wear, Bede was sent to Monkwearmouth at the age of seven and later joined Abbot Ceolfrith at Jarrow. Both of them survived a plague that struck in 686 and killed a majority of the population there. While Bede spent most of his life in the monastery, he travelled to several abbeys and monasteries across the British Isles, even visiting the archbishop of York and King Ceolwulf of Northumbria. He was an author, teacher (Alcuin was a student of one of his pupils), and scholar, and his most famous work, ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
