RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
The Life of St David (of Wales) was written around 1095 by Rhigyfarch, and is our main source of knowledge for the lives of both St David (died c. 589) and his mother. Rhigyfarch was a Norman cleric whose father had been Bishop…
The Monk John Cassian the Roman, as to the place of birth and the language in which he wrote – belonged to the West, but the spiritual native-land of the saint was always the Orthodox East. John accepted monasticism at…
source: hefenfelth.wordpress.com Some of the most important additions to Bede’s Prose Life of Cuthbert came from Herefrith, a former abbot of Lindisfarne. I think its worth exploring what Bede tells us about Herefrith in the Life of Cuthbert and what we can deduce. When…
St.Walpurga was born in the county of Devon, England, into a local aristocratic family. She was the daughter of Saint Richard the Pilgrim, an underking of the West Saxons, and of Saint Wuna of Wessex, and had two brothers, Saint Willibald and Saint Winibald In 721…
In 597, a party of forty missionary monks, led by St Augustine of Canterbury (May 28), was sent to Britain by the holy Pope Gregory the Great, to bring the blessed Gospel of Jesus Christ to the English people. Aethelberht,…
Saint Mildburh (alternatively Milburga or Milburgh) (+23 February 727) was the abbess of Wenlock Priory. Her feast day is 23 February. Mildburh was a daughter of Merewalh, King of the Mercian sub-kingdom of Magonsaete, and Domne Eafe. She was the older sister of Saint Mildrith and Saint Mildgytha. The three sisters have been likened to the…
Pope Telesphorus was the bishop of Rome from c. 126 to his death c. 137, during the reigns of Roman Emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was of Greek ancestry and born in Terranova da Sibari, Calabria, Italy. He is also a martyr according to the ancient testimony of St. Irenaeus. Telesphorus is traditionally considered…
Saint Eleutherius of Tournai (French: Eleuthère) (+ c. 532) is venerated as a saint and considered the first bishop of Tournai. There is very little known about St. Eleutherius was, without doubt, the first Bishop of Tournai. He became a bishop in 486. A group…
Colmán of Lindisfarne (c. 605 – 18 February 675 AD) also known as Saint Colmán was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 661 until 664. Colman was a native of the west of Ireland and had received his education on Iona He was probably a nobleman of Canmaicne. Colman succeeded Aidan and Finan as…
