Bede

Bede, known as the Venerable Bede, was an English Benedictine monk, scholar and writer who lived from about 672 until 735 in the Kingdom of Northumbria. He spent nearly his whole life in the twin monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, where he wrote on the Bible, on the calendar and on the dating of Easter, and helped popularise dating years forward from the birth of Christ. His most famous work, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed around 731, earned him the title Father of English History and is the main source for the early English church. A cult grew around him after his death, his remains rest in Durham Cathedral, and in 1899 he was declared a Doctor of the Church.