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See also: English See also: saint and archbishop of See also: Canterbury, was See also: born at See also: Abingdon, near See also: Oxford, about 1175
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His See also: father was a See also: merchant of that See also: town who retired, with his wife's consent, to the monastery of Eynsham, leaving in her hands the See also: education of their See also: family
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Her name was Mabel; she was a devout woman who lived an ascetic See also: life and encouraged her See also: children to do the same
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Both her daughters took the veil; three of her sons served the See also: church in different capacities
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Edmund, her first-born, began his education in a grammar school at Oxford
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Of weak
See also: health and a contemplative disposition, he showed, from his earliest years, a remarkable taste for learning and religious exercises
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He saw visions See also: white still at school, and at the age of twelve took a vow of perpetual chastity in the Virgin's church at Oxford
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Later he was sent, with his
See also: brother Robert, to study the liberal arts at See also: Paris
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His See also: mother's See also: death and family affairs recalled him for a See also: time to See also: England; but. he afterwards graduated at Paris
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For six years he lectured in the liberal arts, partly in Paris and partly in Oxford; his career as an Oxford teacher commenced before 1205, f,nd is noteworthy for the fact that he was the first who lectured there on See also: Aristotle
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He then returned to Paris for a course of theological studies, and rapidly made himself proficient in that branch of learning
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After spending a See also: year in retirement with the Augustinian canons of Merton (Surrey) he became a theological lecturer in Oxford
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In this capacity he gained some reputation, and it is related that his See also: audience were often moved to tears by his eloquence
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