✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: May 19

St. Dunstan

Archbishop · c. 909–988

Patron of Goldsmiths, blacksmiths

A monk, craftsman, and statesman who as archbishop of Canterbury revived English monastic life and counseled a line of Saxon kings.

A skilled metalworker, he is patron of goldsmiths and blacksmiths — and legend says he once seized the devil by the nose with his red-hot tongs.

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