ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 12th of October WELCOME! SAINT WILFRED, BISHOP OF YORK, CONFESSOR Saint Wilfred [Wilfrid], in English-Saxon Willferder , to whose zealous labours several churches both in our island and abroad were indebted for their conversion to Christ, was born in the kingdom of Northumberland, towards the year 634. At fourteen years of age he was sent to the monastery of Lindisfarne that he might be trained up in the study of the sacred sciences, in which he discovered an application, penetration, and maturity of judgment beyond his years. A desire of greater improvement than he could attain to in that house, where he perceived the discipline that was practised to be imperfect, put him upon a project of travelling into France and Italy. He made some stay at Canterbury, where he studied the Roman discipline, and learned the psalter according to the Roman version, instead of that of Saint Jerome , which he had used before....