27
May. 1662 Book of Common
Prayer. Venerable Bede, Presbyter.
Before beginning, let us have
a few rounds with “For All the Saints” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQcTn_oEuxU
Venerable
Bede, Presbyter.
(A.D. 673-735). Monk of Wearmouth and Jarrow. He was the great teacher and
writer of the Anglo-Saxon Church; of saintly character and extraordinary scope
of acquirements; author of The
Ecclesiastical History of the English Church, Lives of Saints and Martyrology,
Commentaries on the Old and New Testament, and translations into the
vernacular, on which (the Gospel of St. John) he was engaged on the very day of
his death, besides hymns and some scientific works. The epithet (Venerable),
according to an old legend, was inserted by an angelic hand in his epitaph.--"Hae
sunt in fossa Bædæ venerabilis ossa." -- May 27th.
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