Talk:Venerable

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and it is considered equal or sometimes superior to the usual "Saint". Can someone confirm this please? I don't think this is correct. --Enigma 20:20, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bede

Though often referred to as "the Venerable Bede", the 8th-century priest is in fact a saint, long since canonised, and the "venerable" is not an official ecclesiastical appellation. /blahedo (t) 04:17, 6 May 2006 (UTC)