Bede describing Hadrian's Wall: "It is eight feet in breadth, and twelve in height, in a straight line from east to west, as is still evident to beholders".
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May 25: Feast of Bede (673-735), priest of Gyruum (Jarrow), biblical scholar. Wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People. When news of his death reached missionaries, Boniface wrote ‘the candle of the Church, lit by the Holy Spirit, was extinguished’. Originally May 26.
