The Life and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindesfarne

Download or read book The Life and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindesfarne written by Bede and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bede ( 672? - 735), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria. Bede's monastery had access to a superb library which included works by Eusebius and Orosius. He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work,The Ecclesiastical History of the English People gained him the title "The Father of English History".