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LIBRARY ST. MARY'S COLLEG
CHAPTEE
VI.
TWO ARCHBISHOPS
(940-1066).
ST. ODO (942-958) was Dunstan's predecessor as
Archbishop of Canterbury in more senses than one.
Bishop JElsfin of Winchester had indeed secured the
election for himself by uncanonical means ; but, as
he was on his way to Borne for the pallium, he
perished in the snows of Switzerland. St. Odo,
then, prepared the way for Dunstan, both as a royal
counsellor, and as a reformer of ecclesiastical morals
and discipline. St. Odo's nephew, St. Oswald, became
Bishop of Worcester 959, and later Archbishop
of York 974, and at Winchester, St. Ethelwold,
Dunstan's friend and fellow-monk at Glastonbury,
was a zealous co-operator in the work of revival.
Dunstan himself was born in 925 of noble parents,
who were living in the neighbourhood of Glastonbury.
As a boy he was confided to the abbot. He
drank eagerly at the sources of knowledge, and grew
up both a mathematician and a musician, according
to the capacities of the age. At fifteen or sixteen he
\vas at t tne tl court of King Atheist an, soothing th
pirit of the re penitent with the t IS
harp. He did not remain there long, but took the
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