BENEDICT, BISCOP

BENEDICT, BISCOP
   an Anglo-Saxon monk, born in Northumbria; made two pilgrimages to Rome; assumed the tonsure as a Benedictine monk in Provence; returned to England and founded two monasteries on the Tyne, one at Wearmouth and another at Jarrow, making them seats of learning; b. 628.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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