Saint benedict biscop biography of abraham

Proof of a very early public cultus of Benedict Biscop comes from a sermon of Bede on him (Homily 17) for his feast, but the cultus became more widespread only after the translation of Missing: abraham.

Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. An English monastic founder, born of a noble Anglo-Saxon family , c. He spent his youth at the court of the Northumbrian King Oswy. When twenty-five years old, he made the first of his five pilgrimages to Rome.

On his return to England , Benedict introduced, whenever he could, the religious rites as he saw them practised in Rome.

BENEDICT BISCOP, ST. Benedictine abbot, known also as Baducing, founder of the joint monasteries of SS. Peter and Paul at Wearmouth and Jarrow; b.

When, two years later, he returned to Rome , Pope Vitalian sent him and the monk Adrian as advisers with Theodore, the newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. After two years, in , he resigned this office and made another pilgrimage to Rome. During this and his two succeeding pilgrimages to the city of the Apostles he collected numerous relics , books, and paintings for the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, the former of which he founded in , the latter in He also engaged Abbot John, Arch-cantor of St.

Peter's in Rome , to teach Roman chant at these monasteries. Benedict was the first to introduce into England the building of stone churches and the art of making glass windows. His festival is observed on 12 February. His biography in Latin by ST. BEDE is published in P. APA citation. Ott, M.