(Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)

Bede (also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda ), (ca. 672 or 673 – May 27, 735), was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Wearmouth, today part of Sunderland, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow (see Wearmouth-Jarrow), both in the English county of Durham (now Tyne and Wear). He is well known as an author and scholar, whose best-known work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The father of English history".

To pray; also, to offer; to proffer.

A kind of pickax.