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BENEDICT BISCOP (628?–69o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 721 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENEDICT BISCOP (628?–69o) , also known as Biscop BADUCING, See also:English churchman, was See also:born of a See also:good Northumbrian See also:family and was for a See also:time a See also:thegn of See also:King Oswiu. He then went abroad and after a second See also:journey to See also:Rome (he made five altogether) lived as a See also:monk at Lerins (665-667). It was under his conduct that See also:Theodore of See also:Tarsus came from Rome to Canter-See also:bury in 669, and in the same See also:year Benedict was appointed See also:abbot of St See also:Peter's, See also:Canterbury. Five years later he built the monastery of St Peter at Wearmouth, on See also:land granted him by See also:Ecgfrith of See also:Northumbria, and endowed it with an excellent library. A papal See also:letter in 678 exempted the monastery from See also:external See also:control, and in 682 Benedict erected a See also:sister See also:foundation (St See also:Paul) at See also:Jarrow. He died on the 12th of See also:January 69o, leaving a high reputation for piety and culture. Saxon See also:architecture owes nearly everything to his initiative, and See also:Bede was one of his pupils.

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