Feast Day
2 saints in our library are celebrated on May 25.
672 — 735
A monk of the Northumbrian twin monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow, Bede was the foremost scholar of the Anglo-Saxon age. Through decades of reading, teaching, and writing he produced the 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People,' the foundational source for early English history, along with more than sixty other works spanning Scripture, chronology, and natural history.
175 — 230
A third-century Bishop of Rome whose eight-year pontificate coincided with a rare lull in imperial persecution under Alexander Severus. Urban maintained Callixtus I's firm stance against the antipope Hippolytus, oversaw notable growth in the Roman Church, and issued a decree governing how the faithful's offerings must be used. Though venerated as a martyr for centuries, modern scholarship holds he died of natural causes.