Possible Clues:

• Only native Englishman ever named Doctor of the Church by a pope
• The Venerable --, English monk
• ''Venerable'' British saint
• George Eliot's "Adam ___"
• Venerable scholar
• Theologian called 'The Father of English History'
• ''Venerable'' English saint
• Venerable resident of Northumbria?
• Monk known as 'The Father of English History'
• The Venerable ----, the foremost Anglo-Saxon scholar (673-735)