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( Benedict Biscop)
Benedict Biscop (c. 628 - 690) (also known as Biscop Baducing) was an Anglo-Saxon abbot and founder of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory. He was born of a good Northumbrian family and was for a time a thegn of King Oswiu.[3] At the age of 25, Benedict made the first of five trips to Rome, accompanying his friend Saint Wilfrid the Elder. However, Wilfrid was detained in Lyon en route to Rome. Benedict completed the journey on his own and, when he returned to England, he was "full of fervour and enthusiasm ... for the good of the English Church."[4] He made a second journey to Rome twelve years later, this time accompanied by Alchfrith of Deira, a son of King Oswiu. On this trip, he met Acca and Wilfrid. On his return journey to England, Benedict stopped at Lérins, an island off the French coast in the Mediterranean. During his two year stay there, from 665 to 667, he underwent a course of instruction, taking monastic vows and the name of "Benedict".
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