ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 7th of January WELCOME! SAINT CEDD, BISHOP [Also commemorated on October 26.] Saint Cedd was brother to St Chad, bishop of Litchfield, and to St Celin, and Cimbert, apostolic priests, who all laboured zealously in the conversion of the English Saxons, their countrymen. St Cedd long served God in the monastery of Lindisfarne, founded by St Aidan, and for his great sanctity was promoted to the priesthood. HE BECAME A PRIEST Peada, the son of Penda, king of Mercia, was appointed by his father king of the midland English; by which name Bede distinguishes the inhabitants of Leicestershire, and part of Lincolnshire and Derbyshire, from the rest of the Mercians. The young king, with a great number of noblemen, servants, and soldiers, went to Atwall, or Walton, the seat of Oswy, king of the Northumbers, and was there baptised with all his attendants, by Finan, bishop of Lindisfarne . Four priests, Saint Cedd, Add...