John of Beverley

Saint John of Beverley (d. May 7 721) was an Anglo-Saxon bishop.

He is said to have been born of noble parents at Harpham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He received his education at Canterbury under Archbishop Theodore, the statement that he was educated at Oxford being of course untrue. He was for a time a member of the Whitby community, under St Hilda, and in 687 he was consecrated Bishop of Hexham and in 705 was promoted to the bishopric of York. He resigned the latter see in 718, and retired to a monastery which he had founded at Beverley, where he died. He was canonized in 1037, and his feast is celebrated annually in the Roman Catholic Church on May 7. Many miracles of healing are ascribed to John, whose pupils were numerous and devoted to him. He was celebrated for his scholarship as well as for his virtues.

Works

The following works, none of which now survives, are ascribed to John by J. Bale:

• Pro Luca exponendo (an exposition of Luke)
• Homiliae in Evangelia
• Epistolae ad'Herebaldum, Audenam, et Bertinum
• Epistolae ad Hyldant abbatissam.

References

• Life by Folcard, based on Bede, in Acta Sanctorum. Bolland.
• James Raine, Fasti eboracenses (1863).

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Early British Kingdoms: St. John of Beverley