ST.

BEDE SPECIAL FEATURES

1) His Title
St. Bede was given the title venerable, which was attributed by the
Church to a person whose process of canonization was underway. It was
later replaced with the title servant of God to refer to the first stage of the
process of canonization. The next steps are beatification and canonization.
The person was beatified and received the title of Blessed after the Church
had examined his or her life and works and concluded that the person
practiced the theological and cardinal virtues in a heroic degree. A first
miracle was also required to be declared blessed. Since the beatification
included a moral certainty that the person was in Heaven, the Church used to
permit some kind of cult in the place where the person had lived or exerted
influence, for instance his city or religious order. The person was canonized
and declared a saint when new miracles usually two in number were verified.
The title Venerable was used for one whose process had been introduced. In
the good times – before Vatican II – when everything was serious, the word
signified that the person was worthy of great consideration and respectability,
in a word, worthy of veneration. It was applied to St. Bede by the Council of
Aix-la-Chapelle in 836, and it has clung to him through succeeding centuries.
In 1899 Pope Leo XIII officially declared St. Bede a Doctor of the Church the
only Englishman to be afforded such an exalted title.

2) His desire for Intellect

The Venerable Bede was a man of exceptional learning but not an
intellectual elitist. He was convinced the Gospel should reach all and was
particularly anxious about those who were not near a place where Scriptures
could be taught to them. He urged that basic texts be translated from Latin
into English to aid in that endeavour. He believed that "Christianity was not a
matter of magic or of rote; the mind must be filled according to its capacity in
order to know the promises and commandments of God and so to know what
to follow." Bede looked at creative ways of making the truth available to all,
regardless of their abilities, their business, or their status in society.
A story is told about the pleasure he found in two new frescoes that adorned
the church in Jarrow because frescoes told "the story" to those who could not
 read (frescoes are watercolour paintings that adorned the walls of churches
and cathedrals). He can best be summarized by another saint, Boniface, who
was the first to refer to Bede as "a candle of the Church which the Holy Spirit
has illuminated".

References
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Our Patron Saint Bede the Venerable. (n.d.). Retrieved from Saint Bede the Venerable:
https://www.bede.org/75

Saints, L. o. (n.d.). Saint Bede, Confessor, Doctor of the Church. Retrieved from EWTN:
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/saint-bede-confessor-doctor-of-the-church-5222