Anselm of Canterbury

a Christian philosopher and theologian; regarded by some as the founder of scholasticism; born in Aosta, Piedmont, between Spzil 21, 1033, and April 21, 1034. In 1092 he went to England. In the following year he was nominated by William Rufus Archbishop of Canterbury, and was consecrated on Dec. 4, 1098. He died in Canterbury, April 21, 1109; was canonized in 1494, — Ansgar, or Anshar, called the Apostle of the North, was born in 801 | in Picardy, and he took the monastic vows in boyhood. In the midst of many difficulties he labored as a mi ionary in Denmark and Sweden; dying in 864 or 865, with the reputation of having undertaken, if not the first, the most succe ful, attempts for the propagation of Christianity in the North.