Patron of St. Anselm's School
St. Anselm was born into a noble Lombard family in Aosta, in the Italian Alps.
In 1060, he took the Benedictine habit at the Abbey of Bec in Normandy, under Blessed Lanfranc, and was in time made Prior, and later Abbot, of Bec.
In 1099, he became Archbishop of Canterbury, where he stood firmly against King William the Red.
He is honoured as the "Father of Scholasticism," and was declared a "Doctor of the Universal Church" in 1720.
The French Capuchin Fathers at Ajmer adopted St. Anselm as their patron, a connection carried forward to this school.
“DEO AMABILES ET HOMINIBL”
Be loveable to God and to man.
Preserved here exactly as published by the school. The second word of the published Latin motto appears truncated — it may be intended as “hominibus.” We have kept the school's own wording rather than silently altering institutional text; the school may wish to confirm the exact Latin with the Diocese or Society.