I recently added this post, The Departure of Bede. In 735, St Bede, a monk at the monastery of St Paul in Jarrow (now a suburb of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) died, aged just over sixty. He was already famous throughout Europe for his learning in matters from astronomy to theology, and also as a man of God and a church musician. All this led the monk Cuthwine to ask Cuthbert, one of Bede’s former pupils and later Abbot of the monastery (which occupied two sites, St Paul’s in Jarrow and St Peter’s in Monkwearmouth, near modern-day Sunderland), for his recollections of Bede’s last days. This extract comes from the end of the letter Cuthbert wrote in reply.