ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS NOVEMBER 4

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS NOVEMBER 4 St. Clarus. A priest, probably born at Rochester, England, Clarus went to Normandy, became a Benedictine monk, lived as a hermit, and settled at Naqueville, near Rouen. When he repulsed the advances of a noblewoman, she had him killed and beheaded near Saint-Calir-sur-Eph. St. Birrstan, 934 A.D. Benedictine bishop, also called Birnstan and Brynstan. He was a disciple of St. Grimbold and the successor of St. Frithestan in Winchester, England.