Confessor, Archbishop of Canterbury , born Glastonbury, England , c.925; died Canterbury , England , 988 . He was the son of Heorstan, a Wessex nobleman, and was educated at Glastonbury by the Irish monks. King Eadmund made him Abbot of Glastonbury, 944 , where he rebuilt the abbey , introduced the Benedictine Rule, and established a school which became famous. Kings Eadred and Eadgar intrusted much of the government to him; the latter appointed him to the sees of Worcester and London and in 960 to Canterbury . As primate he was the virtual ruler of the kingdom and promulgated reforms in Church and State. With the accession of King Ethelred the Unready, 978 , he retired to Canterbury . Patron of goldsmiths, locksmiths, armorers, blacksmiths, and musicians. His tomb, discovered at Canterbury , 1506 , by Archbishop Warham, was destroyed during the Reformation. Feast , 19 May . <\/p>\n
Canterbury, Dunstan of, Saint Confessor, Archbishop of Canterbury , born Glastonbury, England , c.925; died Canterbury , England , 988 . He was the son of Heorstan, a Wessex nobleman, and was educated at Glastonbury by the Irish monks. King Eadmund made him Abbot of Glastonbury, 944 , where he rebuilt the abbey , introduced … Continue reading “Canterbury, Dunstan of, Saint”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}