St. Bede's Tomb

St. Bede - the finest scholar of his age - was buried at the monastery of St. Paul at Jarrow in 735. However, in about 1022, his bones were brought to Durham. Then, in 1370, his remains were placed in a splendid shrine in the Galilee Chapel. This shrine was destroyed during the Reformation in 1540. Bede's bones were then buried in a grave where the shrine had stood.	`scholar = Gelehrter` `monastery = Kloster` `bone = Knochen` `remains = Überreste` `splendid = prächtig` `shrine = Schrein, Sarkophag` `grave = Grab`
Eventually, in 1831, the present tomb was erected over Bede's grave. It has the following inscription cut into its surface:	`eventually = schließlich` `tomb = Grab, Grabmal`
HAC SUNT IN FOSSA BEDAE VENERABILIS OSSA
Translated from the Latin, this means 'In this tomb are the bones of the Venerable Bede'. A sculptured quotation from one of Bede's prayers hangs on the east wall above his tomb. It was designed by George Pace and placed there in 1970 as a memorial to Dean Alington (1933-1951). It says in Latin and then in English:	`venerable = verehrungswürdig, selig` `quotation = Zitat` `prayer = Gebet` `memorial = Denkmal`
Christ is the morning star who, when the night of this world is past, brings to his saints the promise of the light of life and opens everlasting day.