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See also:ALPHEGE [zELFHEAH], See also:SAINT (954-1023) , See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, came of a See also:noble See also:family, but in See also:early See also:life gave up everything for See also:religion. Having assumed the monastic See also:habit in the monastery of Deerhurst, he pased thence to See also:Bath, where he became an anchorite and ultimately See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot, distinguishing himself by his piety and the austerity of his life. In 984 he was appointed through See also:Dunstan's See also:influence to the bishopric of See also:Winchester, and in roo6 he succeeded See also:IElfric as archbishop of Canterbury. At the See also:sack of Canterbury by the Danes in See also:roll i lfheah was captured and kept in See also:prison for seven months. Refusing to pay a See also:ransom he was barbarously murdered at See also:Greenwich on the 19th of See also:April 1012. He was buried in St See also:Paul's, whence his See also:body was removed by Canute to Canterbury with all the ceremony of a See also:great See also:act of See also:state in 1023.
Lives of St. Alphege in See also:prose (which survives) and in See also:verse were written by command of See also:Lanfranc by the Canterbury See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk Osbern (d. c. 1090), who says that his See also:account of the See also:solemn See also:translation to Canterbury in 1023 was received from the See also:dean, Godric, one of Alphege's own scholars.
End of Article: ALPHEGE [zELFHEAH], SAINT (954-1023)
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