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media type="custom" key="10521522" John Bede Polding, Catholic Arch Bishop, was born on the !8th of November in Liverpool, England, and died in 1877. His father was of Dutch descent and his mother came from the Brewer family, recusants since the sixteenth century. His family name was also spelt Poulden or Polten.

His parents died and at the age of 8 he was put in the care of his uncle, Father Bede Brewer, president-general of the English Benedictine Congregation. He was taught by the Benedictine nuns of the Convent of Our Lady of Consolation of Cambray, as refugees from France they were located at Much Woolton, near Liverpool.

At 11 he was sent to St Gregory's Benedictine College, at Acton Burnell, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. On 15th July 1810 Polding was admitted to the religious community, taking the name of Bede. He recieved small orders from Bishop Milner at Wolverhampton, was ordained Priest by Bishop Poynter at Old Hall College on the 4th of March 1819, and on the 21st he sang his 1st Mass.

Meanwhile he had undergone the study of the Benedictines, excelling at philosophy and theology. In 1814 the community transferred to St Gregory's Monastery, Downside, where Polding stayed for twenty years, filling many offices in the school and monastery, and in 1826 to 1834 working as a secretary to the president of the Benedictine Congregation.

He had a fatal sickness and died in 1877.

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