Canterbury, Adrian of
Canterbury, Adrian of
Abbot , born Africa ; died Canterbury , England ; died 710. He was a Benedictine , Abbot of Nerida, near Naples , and went to England , 668 , with Theodore, newly appointed archbishop of Canterbury, having himself refused the see. He became Abbot of Saint Austin’s, Canterbury , and assisted Theodore in harmonizing the practises of the Anglo-Saxon Church with those of Rome. Under him the School of Canterbury became the center of English learning. Feast , 9 January .