"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...
St. Richard of Swabia also known as St. Richard, King of Wessex (Kingdom of the West Saxons) is the brother of St. Boniface. It is uncertain whether or not he was crowned a king in this life, but he is certainly numbered with the "kings and priests" in the Kingdom of Christ.
St. Swithun had been Abbot of the monastery
attached to the cathedral, before he was made Bishop of Winchester in AD 852...
He was, say the chroniclers, a diligent builder
of churches in places where there were none before and a repairer of those that
had been destroyed or ruined. He also built a bridge on the east side of the
city and, during the work he made a practice of sitting there to watch the
workmen, that his presence might stimulate their industry.
St. Swithun had been Abbot of the monastery
attached to the cathedral, before he was made Bishop of Winchester in AD 852...
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