“The time of my departure has arrived and my heart longs to see the beauty of Christ, my king,” said the doctor of the Church and Patron of the historians, San Beda, whose homilies inspired the pontifical motto of Pope Francis.
Being also linguist and translator, his works with the Latin and Greek writings of the first parents of the Church contributed significantly with English Christianity.
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In his homilies, San Beda made a reflection of the evangelical episode of Jesus’ call to San Mateo, and wrote: “He saw that the tax collector and because he saw, and said to him, follow me? (Jesus saw a publican, and as he looked at him with a feeling of love and chose him, he said: follow me). ”
Of these words, Pope Francis took the phrase “Mercy and selecting “which appears in his papal shield, since it is a tribute to the divine mercy that the Pontiff experienced in his youth, after a confession.
San Beda was born by 672 or 673 in Wearside or Tyneside (United Kingdom), very close to the monastery of San Pedro in Wearmouth, where he entered with only seven years of age. His trainer there was San Benito Biscop.
Years later, San Beda went to the jarrow monastery and had San Celofrith as a new teacher. It is said that he was ordered deacon with 19 years and then, with 30 years, he was ordered priest by San Juan de Beverley. He wrote many books, being his masterpiece the “History of the English Church and People”(History of the Church and the English people).
San Beda, known as the Venerable, left for the father’s house on May 25, 735. In 1899 Pope Leo XIII appointed him Doctor of the Church for his important theological contribution.
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