In researching the history of this quaint market town, just north of Hull, I found the most marvellous story of St John of Beverley, who founded the town with the establishment of a monastery here in AD717. This from Wikipedia: "In 687 he was consecrated bishop of Hexham and in 705 was promoted to the bishopric of York. Of his new activity little is known beyond that he was diligent in visitation, considerate towards the poor, and attentive to the training of students whom he maintained under his personal charge. He ordained Bede as a deacon and as a priest. He resigned perhaps about 717 and retired to a monastery which he had founded at Beverley, where he died on 7 May 721."
For more, please search online for "Beverley" and you'll get a wide range of different sources.
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I really like such stories and the photo is enticing. And it seems to me, that the little that is known of the Bishop's life suggests it was well-lived. What more needs to be known, really?
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Ian