ST. ALFRED THE GREAT (OCT. 26TH)
Saint King Alfred the Great Edited by Bp. Joseph ( Ancient Church of the West ) Today, we celebrate the Holy and Right-Believing Saint, King Alfred the Great! King Alfred the Great was the King of Wessex from AD 871 to 899. He successfully stopped the advance of the Danes into Anglo-Saxon England, unifying the country. In addition to being the unifier of Anglo-Saxon England in the face of the Danish invasion, Alfred was a promoter of education, father of English prose, a patron of the Church, and a reviver of monasticism in the country. He is the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". Alfred the Great is remembered on October 26th. Alfred was born in 849 in the village Wanating in what is now Wantage, Oxfordshire, the youngest son of King Aethelwulf of Wessex and his first wife, Osburga. Aethelwulf was a devout Christian, a trait that would reflect in Alfred's life. It was during his youth that Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfre...
