Westminster abbey and the cathedrals of England (1895)
Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903, Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868, Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881 · Philadelphia : J. C. Winston & co. · leaf 160
here is the plain altarslab which marks the burial-place of the great Northumbrian scholar. On the tombare engraved the well-known words, Hac sitnf in fossa Bedce Vcnerabilis ossa (In thisgrave lie the bones of the Venerable Bede). According to the old legend the monk,who was casting about for a… … THE GALILEK CHAPEL. the metrically suitable Venerabilis. This, according to the legend, is the originof the peculiar prefix Venerable, alwaj-s associated with the name of Bede. We must not forget that Durham Cathedral was the church of a greatmonastic house until the Reformation. The whole fabric…
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