Benedict
Biscop was born in about 628.
A Northumbrian nobleman, he underwent a religious conversion in 653.
He became a monk and after five pilgrimages
to Rome, became an abbot in Canterbury
(669-671).
In 674 Benedict Biscop founded a monastery at Wearmouth where established
an extensive library of books. He founded a second monastery at Jarrow
in 682. One of Benedict Biscop's students was the early historian,
Bede. Benedict Biscop died in 689.
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