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The Beda Review
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Our Annual Publication
- An annual review is published every summer, giving information of the year’s highlights and articles of interest about the Beda and for people in the Beda.
- The Review is available to students, people connected with the formation of students, members of the Beda Association, and anyone interested in the life of the College and its students. The current issue can be viewed here as a pdf file and hard copies can be obtained from the Beda.
- It is a professional production and is important for communicating news about the work of the college.
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Current Issue
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Current Issue
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The FMDM Sisters
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1960-2022The Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood (FMDM), who have their mother-house at Godalming in Surrey, made the Beda College their Roman home since the present building opened in 1960. In fact, the pioneer community arrived to get the new premises ready for students who were transferring from the previous Barberini site.
When the Beda opened on 20th October 1960, Pope St John XXIII visited the College. In the Beda Review of 2002, Sister Assumpta, who was on the staff for many years until 2012, wrote, “That visit is memorable in FMDM history as the occasion on which the Vatican security men locked up the sisters in the portineria (presumably supposing them to be a security risk!). They were released at the intercession of Mgr Witty, the vice-rector, and presented to the Pope.”
Over the years, the Sisters have played a vital role in the life of the College by their loving presence among us and by the work they have done in the library and in helping individual students with English in their essays.
Sadly in 2022 their leadership team decided they could no longer maintain their mission to the College. Their Community Leader, Sister Jane Bertelson came to the College for a thanksgiving and presentation on Bede's Day. A College Gita to Assisi in June helped to mark their farewell. The final FMDM Community at the Beda were Sisters Carmel, Bee and Mary Jean. We offer thanks to them and to all the FMDM Sisters who have served the College over the past 62 years and we wish them well in their future ministry.
Ad Multos Annos!
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New Icons for Refectory in 2019
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The Aidan Hart Icons
Wearmouth–Jarrow was the creation of Northumbrian nobleman Benedict Biscop (about 628–90), who visited Rome and was inspired by the Christian life he saw there.
In 674 he approached King Ecgfrith of Northumbria for land for a monastery. He was first given a large estate to found Saint Peter’s, Wearmouth, and then in 681 received land at Jarrow to found Saint Paul’s. .
Bede entered the Monastic community at Monkwearmouth Saint Peter at the age of 7 and he lived here until, with Coelfrith and some other monks, he was transferred to the newly gifted site in Jarrow where a second monastery church and complex was built under the Patronage of Saint Paul. It was here, at Saint Paul Jarrow, that Bede lived out the rest of his life until his death in 735.. His remains were transferred to Durham Cathedral at some point in the 11th century.
These newly written icons represent Saint Peter holding in his hand the monastery church of Monkwearmouth and Saint Paul holding the church of Saint Paul at Jarrow.
They encapsulate not only the heritage of Rome, the duorum principum who shed their blood here at Rome but also the monastic life of our patron Bede; Saint Peter Monkwearmouth and Saint Paul Jarrow.
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Other related historical links
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Icon of Our Lady, Queen of Prophets
The congregation of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God was founded in 1869 in London, England by Mother Magdalen Taylor, an Englishwoman who in secular life had worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War. She was assisted by Lady Georgiana Fullerton, who was a noted religious novelist of the time.
The congregation received papal approval in 1879, and a convent was opened in Rome in 1887. This was paid for by Prince Alessandro Torlonia, and the Fullerton family of English Catholic gentry.
In 1890, the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom was founded here to pray for the "Conversion of England". In 1895, a copy of a famous ancient fresco of the Mother and Child in the catacombs of Santa Priscilla was enshrined here, under the title of "Our Lady, Queen of the Prophets".
The convent and church were rebuilt by Carlo Maria Busiri Vici in 1908, The church itself being dedicated to Saint George and the English Martyrs, respecting Pope Leo XIII’s desire that this should be a place of prayer for the unity of the churches in the United Kingdom.
At Mater Dei, the name of the Convent near to the Spanish Steps in central Rome, today we celebrated the Feast of Our Lady Queen of Prophets and presented the Sisters with this copy of the fresco as a gift from the Beda College.
We are grateful to Matthew Bond , a student for the Diocese of Wrexham, whose has crafted this painting for us.
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Icon before being presented to the Sisters, 27th January 2020
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