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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The founder brought workmen from France to build his church at Wearmouth in the Roman fashion and furnished it with glass windows (hitherto unknown in England), pictures, and service-books.
		The abbey was thus the cradle (as Bishop Hedley has said) not only of English art but of English literature, for the Venerable Bede received his early education there.
		Wearmouth passed afterwards to the Widdrington family, then to that of Fenwick.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/w/wearmouth_abbey.htm (400 words)

	Saxon Houses: including Wearmouth and Jarrow \| British History Online
		The two foundations of Wearmouth and Jarrow were so closely connected in their early history that, to use the expression of Simeon of Durham, they seem to have been one monastery built upon two sites.
		Easterwin, abbot of Wearmouth, was of noble birth.
		After Easterwin's death the brethren at Wearmouth consulted with Ceolfrid as to the choice of a successor, and finally elected the deacon Sigfrid, a man skilled in theology, of courteous manners and temperate life; he had an incurable disease of the lungs, and his disposition was chastened and sweetened by suffering.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=39877 (4290 words)

	Sunderland - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The abbey, where Bede was educated, was destroyed by the Danes and probably not rebuilt until Bishop Walcher (1071-1081) settled Aldwin and his companions there.
		It was from Wearmouth that Edgar iEtheling set sail for Scotland, the account implying that this was, a frequented port.
		In 1431 the rent of assize from the demesne lands of Monk's Wearmouth was £5, is. od.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sunderland (1131 words)

	Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Winchcombe \| British History Online
		In 1318 the manor of Rowell was purchased from the abbey of St. Evroul at an initial cost of £550, and a yearly rent of £20.
		The buildings of the monastery and on the manors were in a ruinous condition, and in 1373 a licence to embattle and crenellate the abbey was granted by Edward III.
		The prosperity of both town and abbey manifested itself during the Wars of the Roses in the building of the great parish church.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=40270 (5244 words)

	Opera Directory
		Cistercian abbey of Germany, situated in the Duchy of Brunswick between Lauterberg and Nordhausen.
		Abbey of the Holy Redeemer, St. Andrew's Abbey, St. Stephen's Abbey, and St. James's Abbey.
		This most famous of all English abbeys is situated within the precincts of the Royal Palace of Westminster.
	portal.opera.com /directory/?cat=39606 (1926 words)

	St. Benedict Biscop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Benedict was his name in religion, which he received at the French abbey of Lerins, where he was professed.
		Wearmouth was to become an extremely important centre of learning and the arts.
		In 682 he founded the nearby abbey of Jarrow, on the Tyne, which was to be the home of the Venerable Bede.
	www.hullp.demon.co.uk /SacredHeart/saint/StBenedictBiscop.htm (190 words)

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		At seven years of age, Bede was placed under the tutelage of Benedict Biscop, the founder of the Abbey of Wearmouth in 674, and later under Coelfrid, the abbot of a nearby abbey in Jarrow.
		In the abbey he became friends with his teachers and students (later to be eminent persons in the Church in England), including Vertbert, Cuthbert, Nothelm (Archbishop of Canterbury), Albinus (abbot of another abbey in Jarrow) and Acca (Bishop of Hexham), who offered him manuscripts of numerous works.
		It probably comes from Benedict Biscop under whose tutelage Bede was accepted into the abbey in Wearmouth-Jarrow, and who for two years was the abbot in the abbey of St. Peter in Canterbury.
	republika.pl /peenef2/angielski/hasla/b/bede.html (1978 words)

	Bell - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It has been maintained with somewhat more reason that Pope Sabinianus (604) first used church bells; but it seems clear that they were introduced into France as early as 550.
		In the 7th century Bede mentions a bell brought from Italy by Benedict Biscop for his abbey at Wearmouth, and speaks,of the sound of a bell being well known at Whitby Abbey at the time of St Hilda's death (680).
		St Dunstan hung many in the loth century; and in the nth they were not uncommon in Switzerland and Germany.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bell (6096 words)

	The Compass newspaper -- Saint of the Day
		Bede was born near St. Peter Abbey at Wearmouth and St. Paul Abbey at Jarrow, England.
		When he was seven, his parents sent him to Wearmouth to be educated by Abbot Benedict Biscop.
		After that, he stayed at the abbey for most of his life, other than a few months of teaching in York.
	www.thecompassnews.org /compass/2002-05-24/02cn0524f2.shtml (437 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of March 7
		The noble Northumbrian Esterwine, spent his youth at court, and then entered the monastery of Wearmouth, where he was professed under his kinsman Saint Benedict Biscop.
		He founded the monastic school and library there, and was himself the chronicler of the abbey and an ascetical writer of distinction (Benedictines).
		Reinhard was a monk and the headmaster of the abbey school of Stavelot-Malmedy.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0307.htm (2184 words)

	Abbeys and priories in England - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint Helena, Elstow
		Knights Templar preceptory 1260-1307, Augustinian priory 1337-1536, Benedictine abbey 1537-1538.
		The Abbey Church of Saint Werburgh, Chester The Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Chester (1541)
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Abbeys_and_priories_in_England (2166 words)

	SAINT BEDE THE VENERABLE
		There we learn that Bede was orphaned at seven (he was born in 673), placed in the care of the Benedictine monks at the Abbey of Wearmouth in Northumbria, and a little later was sent to Jarrow, a nearby sisterabbey.
		Bede drew his facts, he tells us, from "ancient documents, from the traditions of our forebears, and from my own personal knowledge, " and his book is a rich mine of detailed, accurate information about every aspect of early English life, especially the missionary efforts of Augustine and the others who Christianized the country.
		In 735, four years after the completion of the History, Bede fell seriously ill. Realizing that he had not long to live, he distributed his few belongings to the other monks and then calmly continued, as well as he could, with his teaching and writing.
	www.stfrancisvernon.org /stbede.htm (487 words)

	St. Benedict Biscop
		(A “hide” was 60-120 acres.) There he laid the foundations of Wearmouth Abbey, not too far from the present Durham.
		As abbot he was at pains to adorn both abbey churches with pictures of bible events and of the saints, in the style he had seen during his many visits to the continent.
		Abbot John taught the monks of Wearmouth and Jarrow the Gregorian chant and the Roman ceremonial for singing the divine office.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id812.htm (669 words)

	Shrines of Britain: Bones from the North at Glastonbury
		Hilda, Abbess of Whitby appears to have been the strongest and Whitby monks seem to have accepted the status quo upon the Abbey's refoundation in the 11th century.
		The name of St. Ceolfrith, Abbot of Wearmouth, is often mentioned as lying at Glastonbury.
		Boisil was buried at Melrose Abbey, unaffected by the Vikings, and later translated to Durham.
	www.britannia.com /church/shrines/glastonbury5.html (419 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Index for W
		Walkenried - Cistercian abbey of Germany, situated in the Duchy of Brunswick between Lauterberg and Nordhausen.
		Wearmouth Abbey - Benedictine monastery in Durham, England
		Wettingen-Mehrerau, Abbacy Nullius of - Cistercian abbey in Austria
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/w.htm (3655 words)

	ST BEDE
		Bede was born in 673 in the English kingdom of Northumbria, close to the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter at Wearmouth.
		When he was seven years old he was sent to Wearmouth Abbey to be educated.
		He was a brilliant scholar, and when he was made a deacon at the early age of nineteen, he was already famous for his learning.
	www.sbedblwn.melb.catholic.edu.au /info/about.htm (373 words)

	Jarrow Records
		Abbey Church was almost nearly rebuilt except the steeple the south and West wall and part of the east wall.
		Two thin copper coins (Abbey pieces) were found in the soil near the surface and below at the depth of 3 feet disposed in a grave of nearly 6 feet in depth human bones.
		The Deceased was appointed incumbent of Jarrow Abbey Church in 1808 and it was on that classic ground that he first conceived the idea of his well-known history.
	www.jarrowonline.com /jrecords.htm (17697 words)

	Libraries in Medieval Times Part 2:The Story of Book by Gertrude Rawlings 1901
		Another early example is that of the Abbey of Clugni, in France, made in 831, and forming part of an
		Glastonbury Abbey, which excited the wonder and admiration of Leland, and which was started by St.
		of his library was given to the Abbey at Jarrow, and shared the same fate as the books at Wearmouth.
	www.aboutbookbinding.com /story/15.html (981 words)

	Saint Botolph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		St Ceolfrid travelled all the way from Wearmouth to converse with this man "of remarkable life and learning" before joining St Benedict Biscop at Wearmouth.
		After his death, the saint's bones were transferred from Icanhoh to the relative safety of 'Grundisburgh' and in the early 1000s King Cnut authorised the removal of some of these precious relics to the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, which he had founded in 1020.
		It is said that when Ethelwold sent his disciple Ulfkitel to collect the relics of Botolph for Thorney Abbey, he found that he could not move them without also taking those of Adolph as well.
	www.stedmundsbury.anglican.org /~burgh/ff/Botolph.html (511 words)

	Wearmouth Jarrow: World Heritage
		Wearmouth - Jarrow Candidate World Heritage Site is internationally significant because of its influence on learning, its part in the emergence of European identity, the survival of original fabric, and as the home of one of scholarship's original giants - Bede.
		The twin monastery of Wearmouth - Jarrow was founded in the 7
		Wearmouth-Jarrow was included in the Tentative List of World Heritage Sites, the essential first stage in the nomination of World Heritage Sites, published by the Department of Culture Media and Sport in 1999.
	www.wearmouth-jarrow.org.uk /index.php?pageId=41 (1023 words)

	EBK: Shrines: Glastonbury Part 5
		Benedict Biscop, however, was widely accepted as having been translated to Thorney Abbey by St.
		Bede was largely accepted as having been stolen from Jarrow and discovered hidden in the coffin of St.
		Paulinus did not die in the North, but fled to Rochester in Kent where he became Bishop and was buried in a suitable shrine.
	earlybritishkingdoms.com /adversaries/bios/shrines/glastonbury5.html (385 words)

	MavicaNET - Беда Достопочтенный (673-735)
		Bede was born on the lands of the monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow, which stood on the River Tyne in northeastern England.
		At the age of seven he was given by his relatives to the Abbot Benedict to be educated.
		Beda wurde mit sieben Jahren dem Abt des Benediktiner- Klosters in Wearmouth, Benedikt Biskop, zur Erziehung anvertraut.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/rus/32097.html (705 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| The Venerable Bede \| Saint Venerable Bede of Northumbria Wearmouth Jarrow
		Lives of five early abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow and lives in verse and prose of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, who died in 687), most of his writings are theological, and consist of commentaries on the books of the Old and New Testaments, homilies, and treatises on portions of Scripture.
		While most of his writing was in Latin, Bede was also the first known writer of English prose, though, unfortunately, the manuscripts have not survived.
		24), which states that he was placed in the monastery at Wearmouth at the age of seven, that he became deacon in his nineteenth year, and priest in his thirtieth.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /venerable_bede.html (1578 words)

	Glimpses bulletin #191: Venerable Bede
		At the age of seven, Bede's education and upbringing were entrusted by his parents to Abbot Benedict Biscop of Wearmouth Abbey in England.
		This was a common practice in the Middle Ages because parents frequently could not support all of their children.
		Boys of superior intelligence were entrusted to the local monastery in hopes that their hard work and diligence would secure a position for them within the church.
	chi.gospelcom.net /GLIMPSEF/Glimpses2/glimpses191.shtml (1760 words)

	Simpson and Brown Architects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		New Hall at Abbey Church in North Berwick
		Work is complete to the new additional hall at Abbey Church in North Berwick.
		The new hall can be subdivided to accommodate the requirements of different user groups.
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	St. Bede the Venerable. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bede was born in 673 near Sunderland, and from the tender age of 7 began to receive a Benedictine education, firstly from St. Benet Biscop at Wearmouth Abbey and then at Jarrow on the Tyne, where he was to become a monk and remain for the rest of his life.
		Bede never travelled but he had a very shrewd awareness of what was going on; in 735 he wrote a letter making suggestions to reform the Church in Northumbria, where not all was going well.
		In 1899 he was belatedly named a Doctor of the Church.
	www.hullp.demon.co.uk /SacredHeart/saint/StBedetheVenerable.htm (187 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ceolfrid, which is the Teutonic form of Geoffery, was a Northumbrian (English) nobleman before becoming a Benedictine monk and Priest at Ripon under St. Wilfrid.
		When he attained the age of 74, he resigned his office and went on a pilgrimage to Rome, taking with him, as an offering to the Pope, the famous ‘Codex Amiatinus’, which still exists.
		It was written at Wearmouth or Jarrow during the time that he was Abbot, and is the best and one of the oldest texts which we have of St. Jerome’s Vulgate.
	www.konkanuae.com /home/stday.asp?id=11 (290 words)

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