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

English historian and author of the Lives of the Abbots and Life of Cuthbert, Bede, lived from 672/3 to 735. 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.