Bede

The Venerable Bede (c. 673–735), a monk of Jarrow in Northumbria, was the foremost scholar of the early medieval West. Best known for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, he also wrote verse-by-verse commentaries on much of Scripture — including Mark, Luke, Acts, and Revelation — that faithfully transmit the Fathers to later ages. A Doctor of the Church.

Bede's verse-by-verse commentaries — on Mark, Luke, Acts, the Catholic Epistles, Revelation, and much of the Old Testament — distilled the Latin Fathers into clear, usable form for a church on the edge of the known world, and they fed directly into the medieval gloss and into compilations like the Catena Aurea. The first to date events from the incarnation (AD/BC) in a historical work, he also wrote on biblical chronology and the natural world, earning the unique title "the Venerable."