ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 24th of April SAINT EGBERT, CONFESSOR Saint Egbert was a Northumbrian monk, born of noble parentage c.639; he died 729. In his youth he went for the sake of study to Ireland, to a monastery, says the Venerable Bede, “called Rathmelsigi”, identified by some with Mellifont in what is now County Louth. There, when in danger of death from pestilence, he prayed for time to do penance, vowing amongst other things to live always in exile from his own country. In consequence he never returned to England, though he lived to the age of ninety, and always fasted rigorously. Having become a priest, he was filled with zeal for the conversion of the still pagan German tribes related to the Angles, and would himself have become their apostle, if God had not shown him that his real calling was to other work. It was he, however, who dispatched to Friesland Saint Wigbert, Saint Willibrord, and other saintly missionaries. Sai...