ANSELM (saint), c. A.D. 1035-1109, was born at Aosta near Lombardy. He became a monk in 1060 at the Abbey of Bec, where he was later prior and abbot. He became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093 but left in 1097 for Rome because of disputes with William Rufus. He remained in Rome until Henry I recalled him in 1100. He died at Canterbury in 1109, and his cult was known as early as 1165. Dante places him in the Heaven of the Sun, Par XII.137.

The Parson's paraphrase of Anselm's homily on the Last Judgment, ParsT 169, comes from Meditatio Secunda (PL 158: 724).