The 29th October was formerly the Feast of St. Bede in England.

The first image is from the Catholic Directory 1838, the second Catholic Directory 1876. In 1838 his rank is of a double, by 1871 he is a double major and so will take precedence over the Sunday. The last Sunday of October is now the Feast of Christ the King. In 1899 St Bede was made a Doctor of the Church, and his feast was moved to the 27th May. The text below is from the ACTA SANCTAE SEDIS vol XXXII

“URBIS ET ORBIS. Extenditur ad universam Ecclesiam, addita Doctoris qualitate, officium et Missa s. Bedae V enerabilis.

Quo Sancti Bedae Venerabilis, tot illustrium scriptorum et summorum Pontificum praeconiis condecorati, honor et cultus augeatur, complures sacrorum Antistites, praesertim ex Anglia, supplicibus ad Pium Papam IX fel. rec. litteris, et nuperrime iteratis precibus Sanctissimo Domino Nostrd Leoni Papae XIII porrectis, enixe postularunt, ut dies festus huius sancti ac praeclari Confessoris in toto Catholico orbe agi valeat cum Officio et Missa propria Ecclesiae Doctoris, prouti aliquibus locis at- que universis sodalibus Benedictinis et Cisterciensibus iamdiu concessum fuit. Illud etiam Ven. Card. Bellarmini effatum in- genti cum animi gaudio atque spe com memorarunt: Beda Occidentem. Damascenus Orientem sapientia sua illustravit;insimul asserentes ea omnia quae iuxta Benedictum XIV in Opere de Canonizatione Sanctorum lib. IV, part. 2, cap. 11, n. 13 pro adiudicando titulo Ecclesiae Doctoris necessaria sunt, Sancto Bedae apprime convenisse.

Placuit autem ipsi Sanctissimo Domino Nostro eiusmodi tam gravis negotii examen Sacrorum Rituum Congregationi committere. Quae, exquisito prius doctissimi viri suffragio typis cuso, in Ordinariis Comitiis die 11 Iulii hoc vertente anno ad Vaticanum habitis, infrascripto Cardinali Sacrae eidem Congregationi Praefecto et Relatore, sequens dubium discutiendum atque expendendum suscepit : « An sit extendendum ad universam Ecclesiam festum S. Bedae Venerabilis cum Officio et Missa propria, addita Doctoris qualitate? » Et Sacra eadem Congregatio, omnibus rite perpensis, auditoque R. P. D. Ioanne Baptista Lugari Sanctae Fidei Promotore, rescribendum censuit: « Supplicandum Sanctissimo pro extensione Officii et Missae S. Bedae Venerabilis ad Universam Ecclesiam, addita Doctoris qualitate ». Quam resolutionem Sanctissimo Domino Nostro Leoni Papae XIII ab ipso infrascripto Cardinali relatam, Sanctitas Sua ratam habuit et confirmavit, atque insuper, ex ipsius Sacrae Congregationis consulto, concedere dignata est, ut Festum S. Bedae Venerabilis cum Officio et Missa propria Confessoris et Ecclesiae Doctoris, prouti haec approbata sunt, die 27 Maii, quae est natalitia, eaque impedita iuxta Rubricas, die prima insequente libera, ab universa Ecclesia sub ritu duplici minori

EX S. G. RITUUM 559 inde ab anno 1901 in posterum recolatur. Tandem idem Sanctissimus Dominus noster supradictum Officium cum Missa de S. Beda Venerabili, sub enunciato ritu in Kalendario Universali et in novis editionibus Breviarii et Missalis Romani deinceps inseri iussit. Contrariis non obstantibus quibuscumque.

Die 13 Novembris 1899.
C. CARD. MAZZELLA S. R. C. Praefectus.

L. * S. DIOMEDES P ANICI, 5 . R. C. Secretarius.

From Miniature Lives Of The Saints For Every Day In The Year, Vol. 2 by Bowden, Henry Sebastian, 1836-1919

October 29. Venerable Bede.
Venerable Bede, the illustrious ornament of the Anglo-Saxon Church and the first English historian, was consecrated to God at the age of seven, and intrusted to the care of S. Benedict Biscop at Wearmouth. He became a monk in the sister-house of Jarrow, and there trained no less than six hundred scholars, whom his piety, learning, and sweet disposition had gathered round him. To the toils of teaching and the exact observance of his rule he added long hours of private prayer, and the study of every branch of science and literature then known. He was familiar with Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. In the treatise which he compiled for his scholars, still extant, he threw together all that the world had then stored in history, chronology, physics, music, philosophy, poetry, arithmetic, and medicine. In his Ecclesiastical History he has left us beautiful lives of Anglo-Saxon Saints and holy fathers, while his commentaries on the Holy Scriptures are still in use by the Church. It was to the study of the Divine Word that he devoted the whole energy of his soul, and at times his compunction was so overpowering that his voice would break with weeping, while the tears of his scholars mingled with his own. He had little aid from others, and during his later years suffered from constant illness ; yet he worked and prayed up to his last hour, and died as he had lived — ever joyful, giving glory to God.

Desire of Heavenly Wisdom.
‘The more,’ says the Imitation, ‘a man is united within himself and interiorly simple, so much the more and deeper things doth he understand without labour ; for he receiveth the light of understanding from on high.’
4 Unhappy is the man who knoweth all other things, and knoweth not Thee ; but happy whoso knoweth Thee, though he know naught else.’— S. Augustine.
The Saint was employed in translating the Gospel of S. John from the Greek up to the hour of his death, which took place on Ascension-day, A.D. 735. ‘He spent that day joyfully,’ writes one of his scholars. And in the evening the boy who attended him said, ‘Dear master, there is yet one sentence unwritten.’ He answered, ‘Write it quickly.’ Presently the youth said, ‘ Now it is written.’ He replied, ‘ Good ! thou hast said the truth — consummatum est ; take my head into thy hands, for it is very pleasant to me to sit facing my old praying-place, and there to call upon my Father.’ And so on the floor of his cell he sang, * Glory be to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ;’ and just as he said, ‘ Holy Ghost, ‘ he breathed his last, and went to the realms above.
‘Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to the everlasting kingdom.’ — Wisdom, vi. ax.