ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 8th of July WELCOME! SAINT GRIMBALD, ABBOT (Native of St Omer, [France]) Saint Grimbald was a monk at St Bertin’s, and with his abbot entertained King Alfred in that abbey when that prince was going to Rome. This king, afterwards, by the advice of Eldred archbishop of Canterbury, sent messengers to St Bertin’s to invite Grimbald over to England, where he arrived, Hugh being twelfth abbot of that monastery, in the year 885. Asserius, a monk of Menevia or St David’s, whom King Alfred honoured with his particular esteem, and who was afterwards bishop of Shireburn, was one of these messengers. PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY AT OXFORD The Oxonian writers tell us that Grimbald was appointed first professor of divinity at Oxford, when he is said to have founded that university; and that Asserius, John Erigena, and Saint Neot taught there at the same time. THE ANCIENT STRUCTURE IS STAND...