Saint Mellitus of Canterbury

Also known as

• Mellitus of London

Memorial

• 24 April

Profile

Abbot of Saint Andrew’s Abbey on the Coelian Hill in Rome, Italy. Sent by Pope Saint Gregory the Great as a missionary to England in 601. Worked for three years in Kent. Bishop of London, England in 604. Exiled to France for refusing to give Communion to apostates. Recalled to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury, England in 619.

Died

• 24 April 624 of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against gout (he suffered from it, and pilgrims to Canterbury who had it were directed to his tomb)

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Medieval Religion Listserv, by John Dillon
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Roman Martyrology
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Saint Mellitus of Canterbury“. Saints.SQPN.com. 23 April 2013. Web. 25 May 2013. <>