In the latter half of the eleventh century, when Stephen was still a child, his parents presented him to Sherborne Abbey in Dorset as an oblate. He received a monastic education, but, frustrated at the restrictions inherent in monastic life, decided to leave the abbey and see the world, traveling first to Scotland and [...]
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St Stephen Harding
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