ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 18th of February WELCOME! SAINT ANGILBERT, ABBOT Saint Angilbert was Abbot of Saint-Riquier. He seems to have been brought up at the court of Charlemagne, where he was the pupil and friend of the great English scholar Alcuin. MUCH SECULAR ADMINISTRATION He was intended for the ecclesiastical state and must have received minor orders early in life, but he accompanied the young King Pepin to Italy in 782 in the capacity of primicerius palatii, a post which implied much secular administration. HE BECAME ABBOT In 790 he was named Abbot of Centula, later known as Saint-Riquier, in Picardy, and by the help of his powerful friends he not only restored or rebuilt the monastery in a very sumptuous fashion, but endowed it with a precious library of 200 volumes. In the year 800 he had the honour of receiving Charlemagne as his guest. HIS WRITINGS Angilbert has been claimed as the author of a fragment of an epic poe...