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Also known as

• Mellitus of London

Memorial

• 24 April

Profile

Abbot of Saint Andrew’s Abbey on the Coelian Hill in Rome, Italy. Sent by Pope Saint Gregory the Great as a missionary to England in 601. Worked for three years in Kent. Bishop of London, England in 604. Exiled to France for refusing to give Communion to apostates. Recalled to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury, England in 619.

Died

• 24 April 624 of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against gout (he suffered from it, and pilgrims to Canterbury who had it were directed to his tomb)
• –
• in England
  • Canterbury
  • London

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Roman Martyrology, 1914 edition
• Saints of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
• books
  • Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
  • Saints and Their Attributes, by Helen Roeder
• other sites in english
  • Catholic Online
  • Celtic Saints
  • Independent Catholic News
  • John Dillon
  • Wikipedia
• images
  • Santi e Beati
  • Wikimedia Commons
• sitios en español
  • Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición
• fonti in italiano
  • Cathopedia
  • Santi e Beati
  • Wikipedia