Saint Anselm

Saint Anselm

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  • Description / Title of the Saint : Archbishop

Saint Anselm

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  • Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Anselm: April 21
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Archbishop
  • Date of Death: Saint Anselm died 1109
 
 

The Story and History of Saint Anselm
The story and history of Saint Anselm. Anselm was a native of Piedmont. When a boy of fifteen, being forbidden to enter religion, he for a while lost his fervor, left his home, and went to various schools in France. At length his vocation revived, and he became a monk at Bec in Normandy. The fame of his sanctity in this cloister led William Rufus, when dangerously ill, to take him for his confessor, and to name him to the vacant see of Canterbury. Now began the strife of Anselm's life. With new health the king relapsed into his former sins, plundered the Church lands, scorned the archbishop's rebukes, and forbade him to go to Rome for the pallium. Anselm went, and returned only to enter into a more bitter strife with William's successor, Henry I. This sovereign claimed the right of investing prelates with the ring and crozier, symbols of the spiritual jurisdiction which belongs to the Church alone.

The worldly prelates did not scruple to call St. Anselm a traitor for his defence of the Pope's supremacy; on which the Saint rose, and with calm dignity exclaimed, "If any man pretends that I violate my faith to my king because I will not reject the authority of the Holy See of Rome, let him stand forth, and in the name of God I will answer him as I ought" No one took up the challenge; and to the disappointment of the king, the barons sided with the Saint, for they respected his courage, and saw that his cause was their own. Sooner than yield, the archbishop went again into exile, till at last the king was obliged to submit to the feeble but inflexible old man. In the midst of his harassing cares, St. Anselm found time for writings which have made him celebrated as the father of scholastic theology; while in metaphysics and in science he had few equals. He is yet more famous for his devotion to our blessed Lady, whose Feast of the Immaculate Conception he was the first to establish in the West. He died in 1109.

Feast Day of Saint Anselm
The Feast Day of Saint Anselm is April 21. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven.

 

Saint Anselm

  • Short, concise biography of Saint Anselm
  • History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
  • Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Anselm
  • Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Anselm - April 21
  • History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
  • Date of Death: 1109
  • Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Anselm
  • Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Archbishop
 
 

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