ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 24th of April WELCOME! SAINT MELLITUS, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, CONFESSOR ⬅️ Saintly Archbishops of Canterbury Saint Mellitus was a Roman abbot, whom St Gregory sent over hither in 601, at the head of a second colony of missioners to assist St Augustine, by whom he was ordained the first bishop of London, or of the East-Saxons; baptised Sebert the King, with a great part of his nation. By his liberality, in 604, he laid the foundation of the cathedral church of St Paul’s, and, in 609, of the monastery of St Peter, at Thorney, which was rebuilt by King Edgar, and again most sumptuously by St Edward the Confessor, and is now called Westminster. THE THREE PRINCES HAD KEPT THEIR HEATHENISM PRIVATE This Christian and learned prince, dying about 616, left his dominions to his three sons, Sexred, Seward, and Sigebert, whom he had not been so happy as to recover from their idolatry, though they had kept their heathenism privat...