venerable bede anyone?

Question

a summary of venerable bede's life?

also describe some of the key evangelistic or missionary activities in Britain

Answer 1

Read about it here.

Now do your own homework.

Answer 2

2 different questions. Bede was a monk, sent to Jarrow monastery as a small boy. He survived a plague which wiped out most of the other boys there. He wrote 2 books that became very famous, one of them the "ecclesiastical history of the English people" which helped to form among the various Saxon kingdoms a sense of common Englishness.

Key steps in the Christianisation of Britain start with St. Illtyd and his monastery at Llan Illtyd Vawr (= Llantwit Major). He and various other princes such as St. Pol (=Paulinus = Pol de Leon) and St. Gildas gradually during and soon after the time of King Arthur converted the Celtic kings of Britain from reliance on Druids (as spiritual guides to themselves and so to their kingdoms) to reliance on Christian bishops and priests. The dominant Christian leaders spreading their faith in the next generation (mid-6th century) were Dewi Sant (St David) in Dyfed and Ceredigion, St. Petroc in Kernow (= Dumnonia, now Cornwall, Devon and Somerset), and St. Columba in Dalriada (now Argyll) and the W Highlands.

From Columba's monastery at Iona came Aidan and other saints such as Sts Chad and Cedd who served to teach Christianity to the English kings of Northumbria (at the invitation of King Edwin)and Mercia between c620 and 660 AD.

Answer 3

One for wikipedia. To think I did all my homework without the aid of the internet.