ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 18th of March WELCOME! SAINT ANSELM, BISHOP OF LUCCA, CONFESSOR Saint Anselm was a native of Mantua, and was educated there in grammar and dialectic. Having entered himself among the clergy, he spent some time in the study of theology and the canon law, and laid that foundation of learning, which, joined with his natural genius and eminent virtue, qualified him to rise to the highest degree of excellence. POPE ALEXANDER II NOMINATED HIM HIS SUCCESSOR IN THE SEE OF LUCCA Anselm Badagius, a Milanese, bishop of Lucca, was chosen pope in 1061, and took the name of Alexander II . He nominated our saint his successor in the see of Lucca; and he took a journey into Germany to the emperor, Henry IV, but out of a scruple refused to receive the investiture of the bishopric from that prince, so that the pope was obliged to keep in his own hands the administration of the see of Lucca. St Gregory VII, who succeeded...