sentences:  From the 7th century important monasteries following the Benedictine Rule were established in the north of England, at Hexham, at Whitby, and at Wearmouth and Jarrow in County Durham.Benedict Biscop was a young noble at the court of Oswiu of Berenicia.In 653, at the age of twenty-five, he made his first pilgrimage to Rome to pray at the tombs of SS.