And we could commemorate all those names removed from the calendar by
reading (rereading in my case) Robertson Davies's story (in his collection
High Spirits): the Refuge of Lost Saints.
Tom Izbicki
At 12:03 PM 2/29/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>February 29 is the most appropriate time to celebrate those who should have
>been saints, but who never quite made it. So lets hear it for Origen, and
>for Theodore of Mopsuestia, Ibas of Edessa, and Theodoret of Cyrrhus (aka
>the Three Chapters).
>
>Ian Tompkins
>
>At 11:31 29/02/00 +0000, you wrote:
>>Interim Saints - February 29th.
>>
>>S. Oswald, Archbishop of York (A.D. 992)
>>
>>[Authorities: His life by Eadmer; also Florence of Worcester, William
>>of Malmesbury, and the Ramsey Chronicle]
>>
>>Oswald, the olnly saint commemorated on Feb. 29th, [but Baring-Gould
>>evidently did not know about St Serendipity, or indeed St Fidget] was
>>the nephew of S. Odo, archbishop of Canterbury, and of Osketill,
>>bishop, first of Dorchester, and afterwards of York. He was educated
>>by S. Odo, and made first canon and then dean of Winchester, but he
>>took the monastic habit in the abbey of Fleury . . . he found favour
>>with S. Dunstan, who commended him to king Edgar, and, by his command,
>>he was chosen bishop of Worcester . . .
>>He afterwards built Ramsey monastery . . . Oswald was afterwards made
>>archbishop of York, without resigning the see of Worcester . . . He
>>died, and was buried at Worcester . . . His purple and gold stole was
>>preserved in Beverley Minster, in the time of Thomas Stubbs, who
>>mentions the fact in his account of the Archbishops of York.
>>
>>Oriens.
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