A Day and a Life

(Not all members are mentioned in A Day and a Life)

Fully professed monks

Abbot John Hazell	once the abbey’s infirmarian
Father Francis	prior
Brother Cormac	cellarer
Father Theodore	novice master
Father Gilbert	precentor
Father Clement	overseer of the scriptorium
Father Dominic	guest master
Brother Thomas	abbot’s esquire, also involved with the farm and building repairs
Father Bernard	sacristan
Brother Martin	porter
Brother Thaddeus	potter
Brother Michael	infirmarian
Brother Benedict	main assistant in the infirmary
Brother Damian	teaches in the school
Brother Conradus	kitchener
Brother Richard	fraterer
Brother Stephen	oversees the abbey farm
Brother Peter	ostler
Brother Josephus	teaches in the abbey school
Father James	makes and mends robes, occasionally works in the scriptorium
Brother Germanus	has worked on the farm, occupied in the wood yard and gardens
Brother Walafrid	herbalist, oversees the brew house
Brother Giles	assists Brother Walafrid and works in laundry
Brother Mark	too old for taxing occupation, but keeps the bees
Brother Paulinus	works in the kitchen garden and orchards
Brother Prudentius	now old, helps on the farm and in the kitchen garden and orchards
Brother Fidelis	now old, oversees the flower gardens
Brother Basil	old, assists the sacristan – ringing the bell for the office hours, etc.

Fully professed monks now confined to the infirmary through frailty of old age

Father Gerald	once sacristan
Brother Denis	once a scribe
Father Paul	once precentor
Brother Edward	onetime infirmarian, now living in the infirmary but active enough to help there and occasionally attend Chapter and the daytime hours of worship

Novices

Brother Boniface	helps in the scriptorium
Brother Cassian	works in the school
Brother Cedd	helps in the scriptorium and when required in the robing room
Brother Felix	helps Father Gilbert
Brother Placidus	helps on the farm
Brother Robert	assists in the pottery

Members of the community mentioned in earlier stories and now deceased

Abbot Gregory of the Resurrection

Abbot Columba du Fayel (also known as Father Peregrine)

Father Matthew	novice master
Brother Andrew	kitchener
Brother Cyprian	porter
Father Aelred	schoolmaster
Father Lucanus	novice master before Father Matthew
Father Anselm	once robe-maker

The Community of St Alcuin’s Abbey