Saint Benedict Biscop Biscop Baducing | |
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 Saint Benedict Biscop | |
| Born | c. 628 Northumbria |
| Died | 12 January 690 St Peter's, Wearmouth (Sunderland) |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church Church of England Orthodox Church[1] |
| Major shrine | Wearmouth 690 – c. 980; translated c. 980 from there to Thorney Abbey (Glastonbury Abbey also claims his relics) |
| Feast | 12 January (Anglican & Catholic) |
| Patronage | English Benedictines,[2] musicians, painters, and (since 24 March 2004) the City of Sunderland[3] St Benet Biscop Catholic Academy in Northumberland |
Benedict Biscop (c. 628 – 690), also known as Biscop Baducing, was an Anglo-Saxon abbot and founder of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory (where he also founded the famous library) and was considered a saint after his death.
It has been suggested that Baducing appears as Biscop Beding the son of Beda Bubbing, King of Mercia in the Lyndsey/Lindfearnan lists of geneaologies held by the Anglian Collection and great-grandfather of Alfred The Great.[4]
- ^ Hutchison-Hall 2013, p. 47.
- ^ English Benedictine Congregation – January Ordo Archived 10 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Sunderland City Council minutes, 24 March 2004 Archived 14 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists, DAVID N. DUMVILLE, 1976, Cambridge University Press