Come and join us tomorrow morning either in person or on the livestream at 10.00 a.m. for Morning Prayer and Holy Rosary. We will be celebrating the lives of Hildegard of Bingen (died 17 September 1179), a great visionary and also student of medicine and natural history (she wrote about the circulation of the blood several centuries before William Harvey's treatise [1628]), and we will also celebrate the 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury, Theodore of Tarsus (d. 19 September 609 AD), the most important bishop between Augustine of Canterbury and Lanfranc. Theodore was ordained sub-deacon at the age of 65 and came over to Britain in 669 AD. He was a remarkable scholar, held the first Synod of the Anglo-Saxon church at Hertford in 672 AD, and he was successful in unifying elements of the Christian Church from Rome, Gaul and Ireland as well as being the first Archbishop of Canterbury to be obeyed by all Anglo-Saxon England. His school taught Latin and Greek (extremely unusual at this time) as well as Roman Law, the rules of metre, music, computistics and biblical studies. He was 87 when he died, and his remains were translated to Canterbury Cathedral in 1091.