ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS April 10 St. Beocca, 870 A.D. A martyr of England, St. Malchus. Irish Benedictine bishop

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS April 10 St. Beocca, 870 A.D. A martyr of England, with Ethor, lledda,Torthred, and others.The Danes raided England, concentrating on Anglo-Saxon abbeys. Beocca, Ethor, and ninety monks died in Surrey. Hedda and others died at Peterborough, and Torthred and others died at Thorrey Abbey. All were venerated as martyrs. St. Malchus. Irish Benedictine bishop ordained by St. Anselm as the first bishop of Watefford, England. He was a monk at Winchester, England, and was a preceptor of St. Malachy O’More.