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    Saint Ceolfrid (or Ceolfrith, Old English: [ˈtʃeːolfriθ]; also Geoffrey, c. 642 – 716) was an Anglo-Saxon Christian abbot and saint. He is best known...
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    was sent to Monkwearmouth at the age of seven and later joined Abbot Ceolfrith at Jarrow. Both of them survived a plague that struck in 686 and killed...
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    successors Eosterwine, Ceolfrith, and others, for 200 years. Benedict, on leaving England for Rome in 686, established Ceolfrith as Abbot in Jarrow and...
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    Jerome. Originally three copies of the Bible were commissioned by Abbot Ceolfrith in 692. This date has been established as the double monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow...
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    produced at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow in 692 under the direction of Abbot Ceolfrith. Bede probably had something to do with it. The production of the Codex...
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    itinerant missionary in East Anglia, Kent and Sussex. The Life of St Ceolfrith, written around the time of Bede by an unknown author, mentions an abbot...
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    dispersed, the Codex Grandior of the Bible being purchased by the Anglo-Saxon Ceolfrith when he was in Italy in 679–80, and taken by him to Wearmouth Jarrow,...
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    April] in the fifteenth year of King Ecgfrith and the fourth year of Ceolfrith, abbot, and with God's help the founder of this church". (St Paul's Church...
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  • bishop. The monk Ceolfrith was attracted to Ripon from Gilling Abbey, which had recently been depopulated as a result of the plague. Ceolfrith later became...
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    Lindisfarne Bosa of York Botwine of Ripon Ceadda of Lichfield Cedd of Lichfield Ceolfrith of Monkwearmouth Ceolwulf of Northumbria Cuthbert of Durham Dryhthelm...
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    England. The Church was dedicated to St Paul by King Ecgfrith and Abbot Ceolfrith. The priest and scholar Bede spent most of his life at the monastery and...
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    to Rome six times to buy books for the library. His successor, Abbot Ceolfrith, continued to add to the library until by one estimate the library at...
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  • it was during his visits to Northumbria, under the influence of Abbot Ceolfrith, that Adomnán decided to adopt the Roman dating of Easter that had been...
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  • for rippling his face. From "Narcissus", Monkey on the Analyst's Couch, Ceolfrith, 1980 Much of Gerda Mayer's poetry draws on the trauma of her uprooting...
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    Lindisfarne Bosa of York Botwine of Ripon Ceadda of Lichfield Cedd of Lichfield Ceolfrith of Monkwearmouth Ceolwulf of Northumbria Cuthbert of Durham Dryhthelm...
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  • Church) Aunarius (Aunacharius) Anathalon (Archdiocese of Milan) Cadoc Ceolfrith Cleopas Euphrosyne of Alexandria Finbarr Fermin of Amiens Lancelot Andrewes...
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  • 669. Because of this, one of the monks there, Ceolfrith, brother of Cynefrith, went to Ripon. Ceolfrith later went to Wearmouth-Jarrow, where he became...
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  • 2003. Heron, Makaris, 1973. Quiet Alchemy, Ceolfrith Press, 1976. Burnt Aces and the Shangri-Las, Ceolfrith Press, 1978. Baby Days and Moon Diaries, Galloping...
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    monastery at Jarrow had an excellent library. Both Benedict Biscop and Ceolfrith had acquired books from the Continent, and in Bede's day the monastery...
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    founded in Hampshire (England) which later becomes Winchester Cathedral. Ceolfrith, Anglo-Saxon abbot (approximate date) Hasan al-Basri, Arab theologian...
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    such as Gerald of Mayo, the Two Ewalds, Willehad, Willibrord, Wilfrid, Ceolfrith, and other English all followed these Irish traditions. A number of other...
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  • Abercuawg (1976, lecture) Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru The Way of It (1977) Ceolfrith Press, Sunderland, Frequencies (1978) Macmillan, London Between Here and...
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    monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey (Northumbria), aside from the abbot Ceolfrith and one small boy – future scholar Bede. Wilfrid, bishop of York, becomes...
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  • from Monkwearmouth, and asked Ceolfrith to serve as abbot. One of those who relocated from Monkwearmouth was Ceolfrith's student Bede. Biscop envisioned...
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  • translator Daniel Varney Thompson (1902–1980). Ceolfrid. Saint Ceolfrid, or Ceolfrith ( c. 642 – 716) was an Anglo-Saxon Christian abbot, best known as the...
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    by Abbot Ceolfrith on 4 June 716, bound for Rome. The codex was to be presented to Pope Gregory II, a decision only announced by Ceolfrith very shortly...
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    Saint Fymbert, a bishop in the west of Scotland (7th century) Saint Ceolfrith (Ceolfrid, Geoffrey), Abbot, of Wearmouth-Jarrow Monastery (716) Saint...
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  • he had served as a monk. He was elected to succeed Abbot Ceolfrith in 716 or 717 when Ceolfrith set off on a pilgrimage to Rome. Bede reports that Hwætberht...
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    ISBN 0-14-051312-4. Bede's World guidebook, 2004 AVCeol: Anonymous, "Life of Abbot Ceolfrith" in Webb & Farmer (eds), The Age of Bede. London: Penguin, 1983. ISBN 0-14-044727-X...
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    Wollaton. The leaf is now on long-term loan to the British Library. "Ceolfrith Bible fragments". British Library. N. Barker, Treasures from the Libraries...
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