BEDA was born in 672, in the neighbourhood of Wearmouth, two years before Biscop founded an abbey there.
In the 7th century Bede mentions a bell brought from Italy by Benedict Biscop for his abbey at Wearmouth, and speaks of the sound of a bell being well known at Whitby Abbey at the time of St Hilda's death (680).
Tha bead se biscop Mamertus dhreora daga faesten, and seo gedreccednys dha geswac; and se gewuna dhaes faestenes dhurhwunadh gehwaer on geleaffulre geladhunge.
On dhaere nihte weardh sebiscop mid his tw['a]m diaconum hraedlice to dham redhum ehtere gebroht.
Sum halig biscop waes Basilius geh['a]ten, se leornode on anre scole, and se ylca Iulianus samod.
Some, like the Benedictine houses of Wilfrid at Ripon and of Benedict Biscop at Wearmouth and Jarrow, were especially devoted to learning.
Mr. Micklethwaite states that "the doorway under the tower of the church at Monkswearmouth in Durham was doubtless a part of the church which Benedict Biscop erected there in the seventh century in imitation of the Basilicas in Rome.
This is the precise method in which St. Augustine and St. Benedict Biscopwere equipped and sent to their missions in England, and S.
Biscop was a Saxon thane of Northumberland; he became a monk of the monastery of S.
Now it does not at all follow that because Biscop brought his masons from Gaul, therefore they were not Comacines.
But materials for study had accumulated in Northumbria through the journeys of Wilfrid and Benedict Biscop and the libraries which were forming at Wearmouth and York.
Bæda--the Venerable Bede as later times styled him--was born nine years after the Synod of Whitby on ground which passed a year later to Benedict Biscop as the site of the great abbey which he reared by the mouth of the Wear.
Benedict Biscop saw the danger of the custom, and declared that he would not transfer his monasteries to his own brother unless he was a fit person to be abbot.
The opposite side was taken by the protege of Queen Eanflaed, Wilfrith, abbot of Ripon, whose ardour in the cause of Rome had been greatly augmented by going abroad with Bennet Biscop about the year 653.
Theodore had placed Benedict Biscop over it while Hadrian was still abroad.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "biscop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
