Saint Benedict Biscop Biscop Baducing | |
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![]() Saint Benedict Biscop | |
Born | c. 628 Northumbria |
Died | St Peter's, Wearmouth (Sunderland) | 12 January 690
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.
Baducing has been suggested to appear 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]