Venerable Bede

English monk, Saint of Northumbria, Doctor of the Church & The Father of English History. Scholar & Author: Historia Ecclesiastica, De temporibus. d.26 May 735.

[Venerable Bede @St_Bede]

Christ is the morning star who when the night.. is past brings.. promise of the light of life & opens everlasting day

[Durham Cathedral @durhamcathedral]

This week, we celebrated our staff and volunteers during Hospitality Week.

Our volunteers came together for an afternoon tea and a catch-up, along with a thank-you from the Dean for their work.

[Venerable Bede @St_Bede]

Christus est Stella Matutina…

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

The best feast-day-of-the-Venerable-Bede I’ve ever had as, before his tomb, to the singing of choirs, amid the billowing of incense, in a chapel lit by shafts of sunlight, dressed like a captain of the Varangian guard, I am inaugurated as the Bede Librarian at @durhamcathedral

[Venerable Bede @St_Bede]

Wishing Mr @holland_tom a happy & glorious installation on my feast day @durhamcathedral as Honorary Librarian @BedesBooks

[Durham Cathedral @durhamcathedral]

On 26th May 735AD Bede offered his final praises to the Lord and died. Today, 1,291 years later, we celebrate the life and work of Bede and his witness to Jesus Christ

Tonight at 5.30pm, we inaugurate the first honorary Bede Librarian at Durham Cathedral, historian Tom Holland

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

Whitsuntide, the days after Pentecost, was for centuries *the* time of the year for holiday-making and summer fun - fairs, plays, games, and parades. It's the reason we have a Bank Holiday in late May, which this year falls nicely on Whit Monday itself. https://t.co/x0bWsxlw3j

[Durham Cathedral @durhamcathedral]

Today is the feast day of The Venerable Bede

Bede was a great monk and scholar who wrote and translated around 40 books, hymns and poems on subjects including religion, science, history, astronomy, mathematics and language

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Following in the footsteps of England’s first historian!

[Durham Cathedral @durhamcathedral]

Sunsets with our neighbour, Durham Castle 🫶

📷 Graeme Hall

[Durham Cathedral @durhamcathedral]

Book your tickets to see three Magna Cartas up close!

From 11 July to 2 November, see the only surviving 1216 issue, along with the 1225 and 1300 issues and three Forest Charters in the Durham Cathedral Museum

Book yours to avoid missing out➡️ https://t.co/PTj6XrulQR

[Durham Cathedral @durhamcathedral]

Would you like to take part in a major artwork at Durham Cathedral?

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[Michael Sadgrove ����🇺 @MichaelSadgrove]

St. Bede, part of the Benedictine window in @Nrw_Cathedral, created by Moira Forsyth in 1964. The Latin inscription is part of a longer text spanning the entire window. Bede the scholar, theologian, historian, poet, scientist, biographer & priest died #onthisday 25 May 735.

[Michael Sadgrove 🇪🇺 @MichaelSadgrove]

Thinking fondly of @durhamcathedral on #StCuthbertsDay. Blessings upon this ancient and beloved house of prayer, and on its community, the shrine of #StCuthbert.

[Michael Sadgrove 🇪🇺 @MichaelSadgrove]

Praying for #PopeFrancis in his illness. Hoping fervently that the time for farewells is not yet. When was a Holy Father so much loved since John XXIII?

[Venerable Bede @St_Bede]

@janeeecharman @PenfoldSue @WATCH_ACT @churchofengland @BishopNewcastle @MartineOborne This is light not death; it has shone in the darkness, and the darkness could not overcome it.

[Venerable Bede @St_Bede]

Many blessings and much praise to +Helen-Ann @BishopNewcastle for speaking truth to power over #Makin #SafeguardingSunday

[Michael Sadgrove 🇪🇺 @MichaelSadgrove]

Not impossible that I may leave X in the future. If I do, it won’t be to migrate to a platform where skies are said to be endlessly blue. Such a ‘nice’ place doesn’t sound like the real world to me without the challenge & stimulus that comes with robust, even abrasive, debate.

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

The sun has come out today after days of cloud, and that's 'St Martin's summer': an old name for a period of fine weather around Martinmas. More poetically, the phrase can be used for a time of happiness or love which comes late in life - sunshine in the autumn of old age.

[Venerable Bede @St_Bede]

@WG_RumblePants If Buttler wishes to step back then, for me it’s Pope. But please not yet Lord!

[Durham University Collections (no longer on X) @DU_Collections]

A treat from the @ushawdurham incunable collection. Historia ecclesiastica by Caesarea of Eusebius, a chronological account of the development of Early Christianity. Most notable for being the first full length historical narrative written from the Christian point of view.

[The Pontifical Beda College @pontificalbeda]

Today is the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. We are directly across the road from the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls, the sister basilica of St Peter’s and burial place of St Paul, who is one of our patrons. Buona festa a tutti voi.

[Durham Cathedral @durhamcathedral]

Huge congratulations to the Durham team winning #UniversityChallenge! 🎉