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Bede
Patristic

Saint Bede the Venerable

Monk of Jarrow · Doctor of the Church
A.D. 673–735

Anglo-Saxon monk of Wearmouth-Jarrow, historian and exegete; his commentaries on the Gospels carried the patristic reading into the early medieval West.

In their own words

Bede · A.D. 673–735 A.D. 709
“This especially belongs to Peter himself, for the Lord explains to him what this taking of fish means; that in fact as now he takes fishes by the net, so hereafter he will catch men by words. And the whole order of this event shews what is daily going on in the Church, of which Peter is the type.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 5:10 (from his Commentary on Luke) PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗
read in context — Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke → cite

A richly-documented figure overflows with verbatim words and works; a sparsely-sourced one is handled honestly — what survives in the public domain, plainly shown, nothing padded.