ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 11th of April WELCOME! SAINT GUTHLAKE, HERMIT ( Saint Guthlake , Hermit, and Patron of the Abbey of Croyland.) He was a nobleman, and in his youth served in the armies of Ethelred [Æthelred], king of Mercia: but the grace of God making daily stronger impressions on his heart, in the twenty-fourth year of his age he reflected how dangerous a thing it is to the soul to serve in wars which too often have no other motive than the passions of men and the vanities of the world, and resolved to consecrate the remainder of his life totally to the service of the King of kings. IN THE SERVICE OF THE KING OF KINGS He passed two years in the monastery of Repandun, studying to transcribe the virtues and mortifications of all the brethren into the copy of his own life. After this novitiate in the exercises of an ascetic life, with the consent of his superior, in 699, with two companions, he passed in a fisher’s boat into the i...