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Bee (IPA: /ˈbiːd/) (also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda (IPA: [beda])), (c. 672 or 673 – May 25, 735), was a Benedictine monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow (see Wearmouth-Jarrow), both Northumbria. He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The father of English history".

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  • He was declared venerable in 836 & was made a saint in 1899
  • This "Venerable" monk's "Ecclesiastical History" tells the story of the English before the 8th century
  • Saint Fursey's visions were recorded by this venerable saint
  • This venerable monk quoted Caedmon's Hymn in his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People"

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