10 Most Evil People of the 8th Century CE

Key Facts

Other names	Venerable Bede
Born	682
Location	Jarrow, Northumbria
Bloodline
Married	No
Children	No
Position	Court Tutor to Pippins (706-741), 1st Abbot of St. Denis (731-746)
Died	May 746 (aged 64)

Source of Facts and Important Announcement

Status	Under Article 64.6 of the Covenant of One-Heaven (Pactum De Singularis Caelum) by Special Qualification shall be known as a Saint, with all sins and evil acts they performed forgiven.
Date of formal Beatification	Day of Redemption UCA[E1:Y1:A1:S1:M9:D1] also known as Fri, 21 Dec 2012.
Source of Facts	Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint.

Background

Bede, or Baeda (also possibly Benedict), was probably born within the Kingdom of Northumbria (England). He quickly became famous as a brilliant scholar on account of his extensive knowledge of history and mastery of several ancient and contemporary languages. It is improbable that he was stationed at St Peters Monastery at Monkwearmouth at this time as the dating of building and ruins verify the Monastery was built after 700.

In 706, Bede was appointed Court Tutor to the Pippins (the Mayors of the Palace) --the famous christian knights sworn to protect their Merovingian kings. It is a position he held with distinction, educating no less than three generations of Pippin children including Charles Martel, his sons and his grandsons including Charlemagne.

Upon the excommunication of Charles Martel by Emperor Leo in 730, Bede was instrumental in overseeing the vision of Charles to the create the largest scriptorium on the European mainland for over five hundred years in the creation of the Abbey of St. Denis next to the Gothic Palace of the Pippins. In 731, he was appointed (in addition to his tutorial duties) the first Abbot of St. Denis.

The first major task that Charles Martel issued to Bede was for his team of scholars to forge a new "common" language for the Frankish Kingdom. This language was to be called Anglaise or "English" and it was to be free from the clutches of the Holy Roman Emperors of Constantinople and their Latin and Greek. Secondly, Charles wanted all his people to hear the Christian Bible in their new common tongue.

The creation of Anglaise (English) was a massive undertaking, much less translating the Imperial Christian Bible into Anglaise. By 736, Bede and his monks had translated several documents into the new common tongue of the Empire, including new codes and laws mass copied by hand for issue across the Empire in Anglaise and by 738 the first translation of the Imperial Christian Bible.

But the first masterwork of Bede and his scholars would be his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (An Ecclesiastical History of the English People) which diminished the Byzantine influence and glorified the christians of the Frankish kingdom. He presented it to Charles Martel by 740.

Following the death of Charles in 741, Bede was once again called to undertake a massive project in creating key documents for the legal claims of the new Catholic Church first formed by the Pippins including: the Donation of Constantine and the Letter of St. Peter (Peter's Pence).

These forgeries remain today the heart of the legal claims of the Catholic Church to its superiority against the original Imperial Christian Church centered at Constantinople -- in spite of the fact that all of them have been proven without question to be forgeries.

Bede died around May in 746. A great scriptorium, Abbey and shrine was commissioned by the Pippins at Monkwearmouth in Northumbria in his honor --the monastery having its named changed to St. Peters some time later.

Bede remains the only recognized native English born Doctor of the Church of the Roman Catholic Church. He should rightly be regarded as the "Father of English".

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