Editing Dunstan (section)

{{Short description|Archbishop of Canterbury from 959 to 988, Christian saint}}
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{{Use British English|date=August 2014}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
 | honorific_prefix  = [[Saint]]
 | name              = Dunstan
 | archbishop_of     = [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]
 | image             = Dunstan3.jpg
 | caption           = Possible [[self-portrait]]; detail from the ''Glastonbury Classbook''
 | enthroned         = 959
 | ended             = 988
 | predecessor       = [[Byrhthelm (bishop of Wells)|Byrhthelm]]
 | successor         = [[Æthelgar]]
 | ordination        = 
 | consecration      = 
 | other_post        = 
 | birth_date        = {{circa|909}}
 | birth_place       = [[Baltonsborough]], [[Wessex]]
 | death_date        = 19 May 988 (aged about 79)
 | death_place       = [[Canterbury]], [[Kingdom of England|England]]
 | buried            = [[Canterbury Cathedral]]
<!----------Sainthood---------->
 | feast_day         = 19 May
 | venerated         = {{ubl|[[Roman Catholic Church]]|[[Eastern Orthodox Church]]<ref name="synaxarion.gr" />|[[Anglican Communion]]}}
 | canonized_date    = 1029
 | canonized_place   = 
 | canonized_by      = 
 | attributes        = Man holding a pair of smith's tongs; with a dove hovering near him; with a troop of angels before him
 | patronage         = Blacksmiths; goldsmiths; locksmiths; musicians; silversmiths; bellringers; Charlottetown, Canada; [[Stepney]]
 | shrine            = Canterbury Cathedral (but also claimed by [[Glastonbury Abbey]]), both [[Dissolution of the monasteries|destroyed]]
 | honorific_suffix  = [[Benedictines|OSB]]
}}

'''Dunstan'''{{efn|{{langx|la|Dunstanus}}}} ({{c.|909}} – 19 May 988),{{sfn|Lapidge|2004}} was an English bishop and [[Benedictine]] [[monk]]. He was successively [[Abbot of Glastonbury|Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey]], [[Bishop of Worcester]], [[Bishop of London]] and [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], later [[canonised]].{{sfn|Bunson|Bunson|Bunson|1998|p=}} His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church. His 11th-century biographer [[Osbern of Canterbury|Osbern]], himself an artist and scribe, states that Dunstan was skilled in "making a picture and forming letters", as were other clergy of his age who reached senior rank.{{sfn|Alexander|1992|p=9}}

Dunstan served as an important minister of state to several English kings. He was the most popular saint in England for nearly two centuries, having gained fame for the many stories of his greatness, not least among which were those concerning his famed cunning in defeating the [[Devil in Christianity|Devil]].