Bede was referred to as "venerable" since the year 836. He was born in 673 on the lands of the Monastery of Sts. Peter and Paul, in Wearmouth-Jarrow, England. He was given by his parents to the monastery at the age of seven to be educated. While it may be hard to comprehend giving away your seven year old son, the rest of history is grateful that they did.
Bede could easily have been called the Amazing Bede since he wrote the first history of England, the Historia Ecclesiastica. But Bede didn't stop there. He also wrote forty-five books, thirty as commentaries on the Gospels, The Acts of the Apostles, and pretty much the rest of the Old and New Testaments. We also have Bede to thank for the counting of time from the birth of Christ as A.D.. He coined that in his works De Temporibus and De Temporum Ratione.
It should be obvious by now that each Doctor has left us a massive body of writing. Our Venerable Bede did not disappoint. He also lead a quiet life, and rarely left his monastery. That is so unlike most of the Doctors so far. He wasn't embroiled in controversy, or heresy, he just lived his life devoted to study, teaching, and the life of his monastic community.
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