Who was Bede?
The ’Venerable’ Bede was a monk at the Northumbria monastery at Wearmouth, now part of Sunderland, Great Britain. He is well known as an author and scholar whose best-known work, 'The Ecclesiastical History of the English People' gained him the title 'The father of English history". Bede wrote on many other topics, from music and metrics to Scripture commentaries. He died in 673AD.
One of the pages from Bede's history(left) and the Bede at work in one of our windows
St Bede's has a famous rose window created by Alfred Handel.
Check out http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rose_windows to see it alongside others from around the globe.
