ENGLISH SAINTS JAN 08, St. Albert of Cashel, St. Athelm, St. Wulsin, St. Ergnad, St, Pega

ENGLISH SAINTS JAN 08 St. Albert of Cashel, 800 A.D. Patron saint of Cashel, Ireland. Listed traditionally as an Englishman who labored in Ireland and then in Bavaria, Albert went to Jerusalem and died in Regensburg on his return journey. St. Athelm, 923 A.D. Archbishop of Canterbury and uncle of St. Dunstan. Benedictine, Atheim served as a monk at Glastonbury, England, becoming abbot of the famous monastery. In 909, Athelm was named the first bishop of Wells. He became the archbishop of Canterbury in 914. St. Wulsin, 1002 A.D. Benedictine bishop and monk also called Ultius and Vulsin. A disciple of St. Dunstan, he was named by the saint to serve as superior over the restored community of Westminster, England, circa 960, and eventually became abbot in 980. In 993 he was named bishop of Sherborne, although he remained abbot of Westminster. St. Ergnad, 5th century. Irish nun who received the veil from St. Patrick. In some lists she is called Ercnacta. She followed the monastic tradition of performing prayer and penance in seclusion. St, Pega Roman Catholic Laywoman, was sister to St. Guthlac and she lived a retired life not far from her brother's hermitage at Croyland, just across the border of what is now Northamptonshire, on the western edge of the great Peterborough Fen. The place is now called Peakirk, i.e. Pega's church. She attended her brother's funeral, making the journey by water down the Welland, and is reputed on that occasion to have cured a blind man from Wisbech. She is said to have then gone on pilgrimage to Rome, where she died about the year 719. Ordericus Vitalis says her relics were honored with miracles, and kept in a church which bore her name at Rome, but this church is not now known. Feastday Jan8