Peter
Also known as: Peter (apostle) / the Apostle Peter / the blessed Peter · Family: Church · Role: apostle · First appears: Book II · Chap. I · part 1
Life events
- c. 582 · Peter became the first abbot of the monastery.(Book I · Chap. XXXIII)
- “The first abbot of that monastery was the priest Peter”
- c. 582 · Peter drowned while undertaking a mission into Gaul.(Book I · Chap. XXXIII · 📍 Amfleat)
- “who, being sent on a mission into Gaul, was drowned in a bay of the sea, which is called Amfleat”
- c. 582 · Peter’s body was transferred from his humble tomb and reinterred honorably in Boulogne.(Book I · Chap. XXXIII · 📍 Boulogne)
- “a light from Heaven was seen over his grave every night; till the neighbouring people who saw it, perceiving that he had been a holy man that was buried there, and inquiring who and whence he was, carried away the body, and interred it in the church, in the city of Boulogne, with the honour due to so great a person.”
- c. 605 · Peter consecrated Clement to help preach the Gospel and succeed him.(Book II · Chap. IV · 📍 Rome)
- With: Clement
- “Peter, chief of the Apostles, who, having founded the Church of Christ at Rome, is said to have consecrated Clement to help him in preaching the Gospel, and at the same time to be his successor.”
Book II · Chap. I · part 1
- with Gregory (interaction) “The blessed Pope Gregory, among other things, caused Masses to be celebrated in the churches of the holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, over their bodies.”
Book II · Chap. IV
- liege: Clement “Peter, chief of the Apostles, who, having founded the Church of Christ at Rome, is said to have consecrated Clement to help him in preaching the Gospel, and at the same time to be his successor.”
Book II · Chap. VI
- with Laurentius (Peter reproved and exhorted Laurentius.) “Laurentius, the servant of Christ, roused by the scourging of the blessed Peter and his words of exhortation, went to the king as soon as morning broke”
Book III · Chap. XXV · part 1
- with Theodore (Theodore dedicated the church in Peter's honour.) “it was afterwards dedicated in honour of the blessed Peter the Apostle, by the most reverend Archbishop Theodore”
Book V · Chap. XXI · part 1
- with Mark (Mark is identified as Peter's interpreter.) “the Apostolic tradition, which was preached at Rome by the blessed Peter, and confirmed at Alexandria by Mark the Evangelist, his interpreter”
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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.