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Welcome to Catholic Saints, the podcast about the lives of the saints and their legacy for the church and for us.

I'm your host, Dr. Elizabeth Klein, and I'm here with my colleague, Dr. Jean-Paul-Juge.

Thanks for joining me.

Always good to be here.

And we're talking today about St. Dunstan, who is a really cool saint. And people who listen to the show will know I like obscure saints, but somehow I did

not know about St. Dunstan, who really isn't that obscure, after all, as it turns out, after I learned

a little bit about him. How did you pick St. Dunstan? How did you hear about him? So although he is

generally more obscure, I knew two Dunstan's because I studied with a Benedictine monk who took the name of Dunstan.

Nice.

And one of my professors liked that name so much, he named his rescue dog after his student.

So there's yet another Dunstan.

I referred to them as Dunstan the greater and Dunstan

the lesser and I'll let you try to guess which one was which. All right. Well, let's hear about

this St. Dunstan. Who is he? When did he live? So he lived at a time in England in which it was a very

bad time to be, for anyone to be king.

He lived through eight different English kings.

He was born around 909 and died in 98.

And yeah, kings just, they didn't seem to live very long, but he was associated with maybe four or five of these kings.

So you get like five or ten years as king. Yeah, maybe five years. Some of them, you know, probably just a little less than that. It should be like deadliest jobs, you know, that show that would be. The early medieval British kings. Like in that's done that show like worse jobs. England's toughest jobs being king. Well, you have furnished me a list that the viewers cannot see of the names of these kings and because I am so fond of Anglo-Saxon names. I was wondering if maybe you would just read the names of these kings and then for those keeping track as we go through his life in these kings, maybe you'll have some vague sense of the succession of these

kings. I hope I pronounce some of them right. There's Edward, Ethelston, Edmund, Edrid, Edwig, Edgar, Edward, the martyr. He didn't live very long as king. And then there was Ethelred the unready, which is my favorite. That's the greatest name. Yeah, he was not remembered well in history. and so he's the unready

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