CIGARETTE PAPERS.

Southland Times, Issue 21996, 21 April 1933, Page 6

CIGARETTE PAPERS.

ANSELM. Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who died at Canterbury on April 21, 1109, exerted a great influence on the politics and literature of his age. Born at Aosta, in Piedmont, about the year 1033, he early showed a marked love of learning and a strong inclination for the monastic life, and when his father opposed his wishes, the young Anselm secretly left his home to wander in Burgundy and France for three years and to enter the school at Bee in Normandy, rendered famous by the teaching of Lanfranc. He became a monk in the abbey of Bee in 1060 and six years later was chosen prior, and twelve years later he became abbot. During this period he wrote his most important theological works and his fame spread throughout Western Europe. Lanfranc had become Archbishop of Canterbury, and Anselm more than once visited his friend. In 1092 he went to England again at the invitation of Hugh, Earl of Chester, who was anxious to instal monks from Bee in his new monastery at Chester. King William Rufus, after the death of Lanfranc, had refused to fill the see of Canterbury, preferring to keep the power and revenues in his own hands, but pressure on behalf of Anselm finally compelled him to act, and Anselm became archbishop in 1093, though at first he refused the post. Anselm and the king quarrelled almost at once, and they had many disputes, and they were estranged when the king died. Anslem who was in France at the time, was recalled to England by Henry I and taken into favour. He now became a great power in England, but he came into collision with the king over the authority of Rome and for a time sought a haven in Lyons. Finally he was reconciled with Henry, the king securing the right to exact the homage of the prelate but giving up the right to invest him. Anselm returned to England and spent the rest of his days in correcting abuses in the Church. He was the champion of the temporal power of the Church. He was a man of great intellectual powers, but simple in his tastes and virtuous. —CRITICUS.