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April Saints

Saint Anselm of Canterbury (c.1033-1109) Anselm was born in Aosta around 1033. He was the Abbot of Bec in Normandy in 1078 and nominated Archbishop of Canterbury by King William Rufus in 1093. He angered William by opposing his spoliation of sees and abbeys and his extortions from the clergy; Anselm went to lay his […]