ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 2nd of August WELCOME! PLEGMUND, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Plegmund, Archbishop of Canterbury, was a Mercian, and spent his early life near Chester as a hermit on an island called after him Plegmundham (the present Plemstall ). His reputation for piety and learning caused the youthful King Alfred to summon him to court, where he helped the king in his literacy work. In 890 he was chosen Archbishop of Canterbury and went to Rome to receive the pallium from Pope Formosus . The King styled him "Plegmund, my Archbishop," in the preface of a translation of Pope Gregory 's Regula Pastoralis, a copy of which was sent to every Bishop throughout the kingdom. The copy presented by the King to Plegmund is still preserved in the British Library. When the acts and ordinations of Formosus were condemned in 897 and the condemnation was confirmed in 905, the position of Plegmund became questionable, and in 908 he paid a second ...