"Which Anglo-Saxon Abbot wrote ""Catholic Homilies"" and ""Lives of the Saints""?"
Anglo-Saxons majority of both is religious. The prose was influential and obviously very important to the Anglo-Saxons and more important than the poetry to those who came after the Anglo-Saxons. Homilies are sermons, lessons to be given on moral and doctrinal matters, and the two most prolific and respected writers of Anglo-Saxon prose, Ælfric and Wulfstan, were both homilists. Ælfric also wrote the 'Lives of Saints' which very popular and were highly prized. Almost all surviving poetry is found in only one manuscript copy, but there are a number of different versions of some prose works, especially the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", which
Cult of saints in Anglo-Saxon England regions of Europe. There is some evidence for Italian ecclesiastical figures who came to England—Hadrian, the former abbot of an Italian monastery, accompanied the Greek Theodore of Tarsus to England in 669, while Birinus, who evangelised Wessex, was also from Italy—and it may be that these individuals influenced the development of the Anglo-Saxon cult of saints. There is also evidence that Frankish Gaul influenced the choice of saints in Anglo-Saxon England. Various Anglo-Saxon churches were dedicated to the Frankish St Martin of Tours. An Anglo-Saxon copy of the "Hieronymian Martyrology", which was originally composed in Rome during the fifth century,