{"id":24664,"date":"2009-05-25T08:30:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T12:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/saint-bede-the-venerable\/"},"modified":"2009-05-25T08:30:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T12:30:52","slug":"saint-bede-the-venerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/saint-bede-the-venerable\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Bede the Venerable"},"content":{"rendered":"

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O God, Who has glorified Thy Church by the learning of
\nblessed Bede, Thy Confessor and Doctor; mercifully grant to Thy servants that
\nthey may ever be enlightened by his wisdom and aided by his merits.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n

Catholics in America are generally unfamiliar with Saint
\nBede the Venerable. The Venerable Bede as he is often called, is rightly known as the “Father of English
\nHistory” and his lasting work, History of the English Church and People<\/span>,
\nremains the basis of modern knowledge of the early period of the Church in
\nEngland. Church has honored Bede with the titles of Confessor and Doctor of the
\nChurch.<\/p>\n

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Bede’s History<\/span> is a decisive synthesis of the Celtic,
\nGregorian and ‘Benedictine’ heritage.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The medieval scholar Mary R. Price said: ‘Under Bede’s
\neyes, as he toiled away in his cell,the divided peoples of the “island
\nlying in the sea” were being welded into a nation, and through his
\neyes and by his pen we can see this happening. We see also the fusion of the
\nfree-lance monasticism of the Celtic monks with the more regular
\ndiscipline of the Benedictine rule, of the Celtic Church with the
\nRoman.’<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Another scholar who knows Bede’s work well says: ‘The
\ncenturies on which Bede concentrates are a crucial and formative period
\nin our island history, during which the future shape and pattern of the
\nEnglish Church and nation were beginning to emerge.’<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The Church universal is grateful for Bede’s interpretative
\nand synthesizing work that these key formative centuries are coherent and present to us as they give us a light on the form, life and significance without
\nparallel.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The rigorous approach to the facts of history in his
\nnarration is widely acknowledged. He explicitly offers his own
\ntheological interpretation of the history he is treating, and clearly offers
\na monastic reading ecclesial history in the light of salvation history.
\nBut what else would you expect of a monk?<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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O God, Who has glorified Thy Church by the learning of blessed Bede, Thy Confessor and Doctor; mercifully grant to Thy servants that they may ever be enlightened by his wisdom and aided by his merits. Catholics in America are generally unfamiliar with Saint Bede the Venerable. The Venerable Bede as he is often called, … Continue reading Saint Bede the Venerable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}