A local Saint! Local to Clifton Diocese, and celebrated today particularly in Malmesbury.
Ælfheah was born around 953,[7] and became a monk early in life.[8] He first entered the monastery of Deerhurst, but then moved to Bath, where he became an anchorite.[9] He was noted for his piety and austerity and rose to become abbot of Bath Abbey.[8] The 12th-century chronicler, William of Malmesbury recorded that Ælfheah was a monk and prior at Glastonbury Abbey,[10] but this is not accepted by all historians.[8] Indications are that Ælfheah became abbot at Bath by 982, perhaps as early as around 977. He perhaps shared authority with his predecessor Æscwig after 968.
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