Today 25th May is the feast of St Bede, usually known as the Venerable Bede, and patron of my seminary in Rome, the Beda or Pontifical Beda College to give it its full name. Living around 700AD Bede is one of tehtowering figures of not only church history in Britain, but all history. Although he hardly travelled at all from his base in Jarrow, Tyneside, hs fame spread far and wide for saintliness, and study. His history writings are our main source for the period after the Romans left. We visited Jarrow on our September Pilgrimage to north-east England a few years back.
The Beda was founded in the 19th century for late vocations. The lower age limit for students
there now is 30, but in my time, when most seminarians started at 18 years old, there were many of us well under 30. I was the youngest! You can learn all about the Beda at its website bedacollege. org The picture shows the college chapel, including the very moving large crucifix.
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