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ST LULLUS, ARCHBISHOP OF MAINZ, CONFESSOR - 16 OCTOBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 16th of October WELCOME! SAINT LULLUS, ARCHBISHOP OF MAINZ, CONFESSOR  Saint Lullus (or Lullon) was an Englishman, probably a native of the kingdom of the West-Saxons. The foundation of his education was laid in the monastery of Maldubi, probably the same which was afterwards called Malmesbury, in Wiltshire, founded a little before that time, in 675. From thence he went to Jarrow, and there finished his studies under  venerable Bede .  In 732 he passed into Germany, and was received with great joy by his cousin  Saint Boniface , who gave him the monastic habit, and soon after ordained him deacon, and employed him in preaching the gospel to idolaters. From this time Lullus shared with that great saint the labours of his apostleship, and the persecutions which were raised against him by idolaters, heretics, and schismatics.  Saint Boniface  promoted him to priest’s orders in 751, and sent him to...