21 April 1109 A.D. Anselm Dies—36th of 105 Archbishops of Canterbury
21
April 1109 A.D. Anselm
Dies—36th of 105 Archbishops of Canterbury
Bevans, G.
M. “St. Anslem (1033-1109).” Brittania.com. N.d. http://www.britannia.com/bios/abofc/anselm.html. Accessed 7 May 2014.
Bevans,
Portraits of the Archbishops of
Canterbury. Toronto, ONT: University
of Toronto Libraries, 2011. Available here: http://www.amazon.com/Portraits-Archbishops-Canterbury-Gladys-Bevan/dp/B005HI57FS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399493248&sr=8-1&keywords=bevans+portraits+of+archbishops+of+canterbury
St. Anselm(1033-1109)
Archbishop of Canterbury
Born: 1033 at Aosta, Piedmont
Died: 21st April 1109
Anselm was born
in Aosta around 1033. He entered the Monastery of Bec which, under Lanfranc, had become a centre of learning.
Anselm succeeded Lanfranc as Abbot and, on a visit to England in 1093, he was
compelled by William Rufus to accept the Archbishopric of Canterbury. William,
however, continually thwarted and harassed him, by plundering and oppressing
the Church, so that Anselm was driven to lay his difficulties before the Pope.
The appeal met with little success but, upon the death of William, he was recalled
by King Henry I and the voice of all the people. Fresh difficulties arose
however, when Henry expressed his desire that Anselm should receive the
investiture from his own hands. This, Anselm declined unless it were sanctioned
by the Pope. He was inflexible in his determination to protect the rights and
liberties of the Church and, finally, the conflict was settled by a compromise,
two years before his death which took place in 1109.
His honesty of purpose, his undaunted courage, his
saintly character and, above all, his great learning, entitle him to be
regarded as one of the chief glories of the English Church. He was the author
of many theological and philosophical works of which the most famous was Cur
Deus Homo. He was canonized by Pope Alexander VI in 1494.
Edited from G.M.
Bevan's "Portraits of the Archbishops of Canterbury" (1908).
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