27 May. 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Venerable Bede, Presbyter

27 May. 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Venerable Bede, Presbyter.

Before beginning, let us have a few rounds with “For All the Saints”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQcTn_oEuxU

Now, a few words from: http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/notes/saints.html#Bede

Venerable Bede, Presbyter. (A.D. 673-735). Monk of Wearmouth and Jarrow. He was the great teacher and writer of the Anglo-Saxon Church; of saintly character and extraordinary scope of acquirements; author of The Ecclesiastical History of the English Church, Lives of Saints and Martyrology, Commentaries on the Old and New Testament, and translations into the vernacular, on which (the Gospel of St. John) he was engaged on the very day of his death, besides hymns and some scientific works. The epithet (Venerable), according to an old legend, was inserted by an angelic hand in his epitaph.--"Hae sunt in fossa Bædæ venerabilis ossa." -- May 27th.