Christian Christian Names: Baby Names inspired by the Bible and the Saints

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Benedict Biscop (628–689), English abbot. Born Biscop Baducing into a wealthy Northumbrian family, he served as a courtier of King Oswy until 653, when he abandoned the secular life with the intention of becoming a monk. Shortly afterwards, he undertook the first of six pilgrimages to Rome. On his way back from the second of these journeys, he took his vows as a monk and assumed the name Benedict (or Benet). After his third trip to Rome he was appointed abbot of St Augustine’s in Canterbury under the Archbishop of Canterbury St Theodore. Around this time he conceived the idea of founding a monastery of his own and in due course returned to Rome in order to conduct a tour of the greatest monasteries already founded.

Once back in England, with the support of King Egfrith, he founded Wearmouth Abbey (the first Romanesque church in northern England) in 674. After a fifth visit to Rome in 678, in the course of which he gathered together a rich treasury of books and relics, a second monastery followed at Jarrow.

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