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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: 670 births, 671 births, 672 births, 673 births, 674 births, 675 births, 676 births, 677 births, 678 births, 679 births, Bede, Saint Boniface, Pope Zachary, John of Damascus, Sukayna bint Husayn, Zhang Jiuling, Cui Shi, Wihtred of Kent, Li Chengqi, Corbinian, Cui Riyong, Tridu Songtsen, Muhammad al-Baqir, Han Xiu, Niu Xianke, Pei Guangting, Guthlac of Crowland, Li Shouli, Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, Chilperic II, Saint Pirmin, Yazid ibn al-Muhallab, Poppo, Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik, Sakinah bint Husayn, Vajrabodhi, Nanyue Huairang, Bertrada of Prum, Prince Toneri, Petronax of Monte Cassino, Drogo of Champagne, Kumait Ibn Zaid, K'inich Ahkal Mo' Naab' III, Childebrand. Excerpt: Bede (pronounced "Bead" /; Old English: 672 / 673 - 26 May 735), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (Latin: ), was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow (see Wearmouth-Jarrow), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria. Bede's monastery had access to a superb library which included works by Eusebius and Orosius among many others. He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The Father of English History." In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation (Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy). Bede was moreover a skilled linguist and translator, and his work with the Latin and Greek writings of the early Church Fathers contributed significantly to English Christianity, making the writings much more accessible to his f...
