As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Bæda.
That name means little to the 21st century mind, but this Christian was born barely a generation after the Conversion of England from Anglo Saxon paganism to Pict Christianity by Irish missionaries.
Bæda was orphaned at age 7 and was raised by the Priest of the Catholic Church. He was a remarkable Priest in reaching that position at age 30, in being a teacher, writer and scholar. It was thought his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" was based upon the "History of the Frankish Peoples" by Gregory.
The History was 400 pages in 5 manuscripts with the last of this transcribed two years after his death.
Bæda's death was interesting, as he spoke Greek, Latin and English. He was born in 672 AD in the year of our Lord, at Abbey Jarrow, and was raised Abbot Ceolfrid and Abbot Benedict. Bæda wrote Da Natura Rerum, Reasons for Leap Year, Life of St. Anastasius and The History of Jarrow Abbey.
Jarrow was a place learning in 500 monks, farming and teaching on 15000 acres of land, civilizing the Faithful.
It was Bæda's last day which was of interest, for he had undertaken something which 800 years later in Germany under Luther and in the year 1611 AD in the year of our Lord under his majesty King James, would emancipate Christians from the Vatican demagogue. Bæda had translated the Gospel of St. John into Northumbrian English.
The story is touching as Bæda was dying and assisted by a boy as scribe, the following scene took place on May 27th, 735 AD in the year of our Lord.
"Thus saying, he passed the day in peace till eventide. The boy [his scribe] said to him, 'Still one sentence, beloved master, is yet unwritten.' He answered, 'Write it quickly.' After a while the boy said, 'Now the sentence is written.' Then he replied, 'It is well,' quoth he, 'thou hast said the truth: it is finished.'... And so he passed away to the kingdom of heaven."
Grant Allen. Early Britain / Anglo-Saxon Britain
It was this friction with Rome, in first the Pict Christians of Irish Priests and then King Henry VIII, which would found the Church of England, which was founded actually at the conversion of Northumbria. This orphaned Anglo Saxon was the start of this and is now literally unknown.
In England, the Church did not seize cultivated lands nor have grants of choice properties. Instead the Anglo Saxon Pict Churches were in wild lands of swamps and forests.
"Everywhere the monks settled in the woodland by the rivers, cut down the forests, drove out the wolves and the beavers, cultivated the soil with the aid of their tenants and serfs, and became colonisers and civilisers at the same time that they were teachers and preachers. The reclamation of waste land throughout the marshes of England was due almost entirely to the monastic bodies."
Grant Allen. Early Britain / Anglo-Saxon Britain
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