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Hello everyone, and welcome to Catholic Saints.

Today I'm sitting down with Dr. Elizabeth Klein. Dr. Klein. Thank you for being on once again.

Thanks for having me. You are building up your repertoire of Catholic Saint episodes here.

That is true, but you let me pick saints that I like to talk about, so...

Yes. So who are we talking about today?

So today we're talking about Beed the Venerable, who despite the name venerable is a saint.

Some people get a little confused because venerable is like a technical term for someone on the way to candidation.

But this is just a, you know, first you're venerable.

Yes.

Then you're blessed. And then any idea on how that happened to him? Why did he get assigned the name B, the venerable? Yeah. So it seems like he got the name because someone referred to him that way in a collection of his homilies that then got spread around. So it could, I mean. Really stuck. Yeah, it stuck. So it could just be a way of kind of classifying him with the fathers.

Okay.

You know, like he's a venerable teacher of the faith kind of thing. But yeah, it just sucked, Bede, the Venerable. Okay. Where should we start with St. Bede? So for anyone who may have joined us for St. Cuthbert, I can say that Bede lives in the generation after Cuthbert.

He's the one who wrote the life of Cuthbert that we talked a lot about in that episode.

So Bede lived from 672 to 735, so kind of like the late patristic period.

And he's from Northumbria, which is the northeast of England, which would have only been Christian for less than 100 years by Beed's life. So he's kind of a pioneer in Christianity. Yep. In the fate. So, yeah, he's a monk and a scholar. Okay. One reason I love Beade is because he's basically a saint just for being a scholar. That is helpful for those of you that are scholars. That are scholars. There is hope. They is hope. If you think about it, there's not that many saints who are saints just because they were scholars.

St. Thomas.

St. Thomas.

But a lot of them are either bishops or martyrs in addition or had some other thing going on.

But Bede is just a regular monk. He's not the abbot. He's not

anyone super special or important. He just was a writer. Yeah, his writings are so well known that he

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