Baring-Gould’s sources: Dempster in his Scottish Menology, and Camerarins. In the former on Aug. 6, in the latter on Jan. 18. In the Anglican Martyrologies on Feb. 19. Authorities: — Bede, Simeon of Durham, and Richard of Hexham.] Acca, the disciple of Bosa, Bishop of York, and afterwards a faithful follower of S. Wilfrid, succeeded him in the Bishopric of Hagulstad or Hexham, in 710. “He was,” says Bede, “a most active man, and great in the sight of God and man; he much adorned and added to the structure of his church, dedicated to S. Andrew. For he made it his business, and does so still, to procure relics of the blessed apostles and martyrs of Christ from all parts, to place them on altars, dividing the same by arches in the walls of the church. Besides which, he diligently gathered the histories of their sufferings, together with other ecclesiastical writings, and erected there a very large and noble library. He likewise provided industriously holy vessels, lights, and such things as pertain to the adornment of the house of God. He also invited to him a famous singer, named Maban, who had been taught to sing by the successors of the disciples of the Blessed Gregory in Kent, for him to instruct himself and his clergy; and kept him twelve years, to teach such ecclesiastical songs as were not known, and to restore those which were corrupted through neglect or want of use. “ For Bishop Acca was a most expert singer himself, and most learned in holy Scriptures, and most pure in the confession of the Catholic faith, and most observant of the B. Scketzelo.

…rules of ecclesiastical institutions; nor did he ever cease to be so till he received the reward of his pious devotion.”1 In 733 Acca was driven from his bishopric,2 and he probably then went to Witheme, or Candida Casa, in Scotland, of which place the Scottish martyrologists regard him as bishop. But he was there for only a short time, apparently two years, after which he returned to Hexham, where he died.