"He alone loves the creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor."
Today is the feast day of the Venerable Bede (673 - 735). A Benedictine monk and English Church historian, he was declared to be a Doctor of the Church in 1899 by Pope Leo XIII. Bede was a skilled linguist and translator. Through his work in translating the works of the Early Church Fathers from Latin and Greek into the Anglo Saxon language, he contributed significantly to the development of English Christianity. With his book The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, he is considered the father of English history.
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