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Bede (/biːd/ BEED; Old English: Bǣda [ˈbæːdɑ], Bēda [ˈbeːdɑ]; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Latin: Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles (contemporarily Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey in Tyne and Wear, England).

Born on lands belonging to the twin monastery of Monkwearmouth, his birth predating the founding of St Pauls, Bede joined the moastery at Monkwearmouth at the age of seven and later joined Abbot Ceolfrith at Jarrow. Both of them survived a plague that struck in 686 and killed a majority of the population there. While Bede spent most of his life in the monastery, he travelled to several abbeys and monasteries across the British Isles, even visiting the archbishop of York and King Ceolwulf of Northumbria. (Full article...)
Attributes: The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, a plume, a biretta
Patronage: English writers and historians; Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, England, San Beda University, San Beda College Alabang
See also: Pope Gregory VII; Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi; Madeleine Sophie Barat, France