Saint adrian of canterbury biography of albert

8th-century Berber abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury and saint

Adrian, also spelled Hadrian (born before , died ), was a North African scholar in Anglo-Saxon England and the abbot of Saint Peter's and Saint Paul's in Canterbury. He was a noted teacher and commentator of the Bible.^[1] Adrian was born between and ^[1] According to Bede, he was "by nation an African",^[2] and thus a Berber^[3][4] native of North Africa, and was abbot of a monastery near Naples, called Monasterium Niridanum (perhaps a mistake for Nisidanum, as being situated on the island of Nisida).

Canterbury

He was twice offered the vacant archbishopric of Canterbury, by Pope Vitalian, but modestly declined the appointment. He first recommended that it should be given to Andrew, a monk belonging to a neighbouring monastery (monachum quemdam de vicino virginum monasterio), who also declined on the plea of advanced years.

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