Adda

Family: English · Role: priest · First appears: Book III · Chap. XXI

Life events

• c. 653 · Four priests preached Christianity in Peada’s province, converting many people from idolatry.(Book III · Chap. XXI)
  • With: Cedd Betti Diuma
  • “The aforesaid priests, arriving in the province with the prince, preached the Word, and were heard willingly; and many, as well of the nobility as the common sort, renouncing the abominations of idolatry, were daily washed in the fountain of the faith.”

Book III · Chap. XXI

• siblings with Utta “Adda was brother to Utta, whom we have mentioned before, a renowned priest, and abbot of the monastery which is called At the Goat’s Head.”
• with Peada (interaction) “The aforesaid priests, arriving in the province with the prince, preached the Word, and were heard willingly;”

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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.