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Tag: Who was St Adrian?
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Adrian of Canterbury, Abbot
According to the writings of St Bede the Venerable, St Adrian (or Hadrian) was born in North Africa, appointed Abbot of a monastery near Naples in Italy and died in 710. Pope Vitalian offered him the position of Archbishop of Canterbury on two separate occasions but he declined, citing his unworthiness. When St Theodore of Tarsus, a friend…