Today we honour one of England's greatest saints. Dunstan's influence was immense in that last flowering of Anglo Saxon society before the fall of King Harold on Senlac Hill in 1066.
Dunstan was a reformer, he renewed monastic life in the country, he built many churches he brought the church to life again after the ravages of the Viking invasions.
there is one story I like about Dunstan when he was a young man working in the blacksmith shop. He had a fight with the Devil and he pinched his nose off with a pair of tongs. if you ever go to Ampleforth abbey ask one of the monks to point out St Dunstan on the choir screen- he's got the dvil's nose in his tongs!
marvellous, these good old stories, we might smile but they do give us lessons too.
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