Death of Venerable Bede, who had devoted his entire life to meditating on the Scriptures from the age of seven; on his deathbed he labored to finish his commentary on the Gospel of St. John
Martyrdom of St. Boniface among the Frisians; when they swung a sword at his head, he held up a Gospel codex as a shield; the book was cut through the middle but not a single letter was destroyed