St. Dunstan
Feast 05-19 · Canonized 1029
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About
Dunstan was born around 909 near Glastonbury in England. Educated at Glastonbury Abbey, he became a monk, and later abbot, restoring the abbey and making it a center of learning. He was also a skilled metalworker, musician, and scribe.
Legend says that while working at his forge he seized the devil by the nose with his tongs. As bishop of Worcester and London and then archbishop of Canterbury from 960, he reformed the English church and monasteries and crowned several kings.
He died on May 19, 988, and was canonized in 1029. He is venerated as the patron saint of goldsmiths, blacksmiths, and musicians.
Suggested prayer
O God, who gave St. Dunstan strength to seize the devil by the nose with his forge tongs and to reform the English church, grant through his intercession that goldsmiths and all who work with their hands may labor for Your glory. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
