Commemoration of Bede!
May. 25th, 2009 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafHurrah for the Ven(omous) Bede, whose feast falls today. He's a significant figure in many ways, not least as a historian and the populariser of the BC/ AD system of dating (it's slightly more complicated than that, but only slightly). One of Northumbria's most notable sons.
I'm afraid at the moment my mind is incurably trivia-ridden: so - Bede is the only British Doctor of the Church, and the only Englishman mentioned in the Paradiso (the only Scot is Richard of St Victor).
Nevertheless, I'm boggling at the quote from Bede's Seven Catholic Epistles I just found on Wikipedia: Prayers are hindered by the conjugal duty because as often as I perform what is due to my wife I am not able to pray.
Well, one would have to hope so, really.
I'm afraid at the moment my mind is incurably trivia-ridden: so - Bede is the only British Doctor of the Church, and the only Englishman mentioned in the Paradiso (the only Scot is Richard of St Victor).
Nevertheless, I'm boggling at the quote from Bede's Seven Catholic Epistles I just found on Wikipedia: Prayers are hindered by the conjugal duty because as often as I perform what is due to my wife I am not able to pray.
Well, one would have to hope so, really.