Bede
Bede (born perhaps 673), called "the Venerable Bede," was a Saxon theologian and monk at Northumbrian monasteries in Monkwearmouth and Jarrow.
He wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation in 731 in Latin, introducing dating from Christ's birth.
A skilled linguist, he translated Greek Church Fathers, making them accessible to fellow Christians.
His scholarship earned him the title "the father" and widespread reverence for over a millennium before formal canonization.
In 1899, Pope Leo XIII made him a Doctor of the Church, the only native Briton to achieve this designation.
Bede accessed an excellent monastery library including works by Eusebius and Orosius.
