"Saint
Patrick, the Apostle of the Irish, was seized from his native
Britain by
Irish marauders when he was sixteen years old. Though the son of a deacon and
grandson of a priest, it was not until his captivity that he sought out the
Lord with his whole heart...
Archbishop of York, died at Rochester, 10 October, 644.
He lived between 584-644. He was a Roman monk in St. Andrew's monastery at Rome, and was sent by St. Gregory the Great in 601, with St. Mellitus and others, to help St. Augustine of Canterbury...
In 664, the great abbey of Peterborough
was consecrated in the English kingdom
of Mercia, the gift of
King Wulfhere and his brother Ethelred to the Church. The consecration was
attended by kings, nobles, bishops, and clergy; among them were Wilfrid of York,
one of the great monastic founders of early England,
and Archbishop Deusdedit of Canterbury.
Peterborough became the center of a great
religious renaissance in Mercia,
with monks and solitaries entering the abbey or settling near its grounds...
Archbishop of Canterbury. Born
in
Mercia,
England; died at
Canterbury,
England,
on August 2, 914.
Saint
Plegmund was a hermit on an island near
Chester,
called Plegmundham after him and later Plemstall, who was noted for his holiness
and scholarship...
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