Who is The Venerable Bede from The Age of Bede and what is their importance? The_Age_of_Bede English & Literature The Venerable Bede | The Age of Bede

The pioneer English historian and author of the Lives of the Abbots and Life of Cuthbert, lived from 672/3 to 735. He lived out his life at a Northumbrian monastery, the Monastery of St. Peter, along with Saint Paul's monastery, its companion also located in Northumbria. Bede is best known for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People and was made a Doctor of the Catholic Church by Pope Leo XIII in 1899.