Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Publications of the Catholic Truth Society, 1897, Vol. 34
St. Augustine came to England in 597 and died in 604. Venerable Bede was born in 672 or 673 ma finished his Ecclesiastical History about the year 731. He was placed in a monastery on the banks Of the Tyne in his early childhood, and thus Speaks of himself (eccl. Hist., v. 24) I was born in the territory of the same monastery, and through the care of my relatives when I was seven years old I was offered therein to be educated by the most reverend Abbot Benedict and afterwards by Ceolfrid dwelling from that time in the same monastery I have spent all the days of my life there, giving my whole mind to the study of the Scrip tures, and in the intervals of the observance of regular discipline and the daily'service of chant in the church it has been my delight to learn, to teach, or to write. In my nineteenthjear I recewed the diaconate and in my thirtieth'thezpriiesthood, both from the hands of the most reverendj'bishop John at the command of Abbot Ceolfrid. From'the time that I received the priesthood until thejfifty-ninth year of my age [have been engaged in annotating the holy Scriptures fromzthe works of the venerable-fathers according to the of myself and. My brethren.
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