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Here's another: Frideswide of Oxford.
In Saint Frideswide's Monastery at Oxford - archaeological and
architectural studies: John Blair, ed., (Alan Sutton, 1990), p254 et
seq, John Blair has this (from my notes): one James Cafhill in 1561
found Frideswide's bones in two silk bags and buried them mixed with
Catholic bones 'in the upper part of the church towards the east'; the
wife of the great heretic Peter Martyr was said to have been buried next
to her; her remains had been ejected from the church by Cardinal Pole
because she was polluting Frideswide's relics.
In ODNB for said 'great heretic', Pietro Martire Vermigli, it says:
'Some time after Vermigli's departure the body of his wife, [the Swiss
former Cistercian nun Catherine Dammat] who had died on 15 February 1553
and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, was exhumed on the
instructions of Cardinal Pole and placed on a dungheap. In 1558 the
remains were reinterred in the cathedral, together with the relics of St
Frithuswith.'
The dates and facts are a mite confused between these two, but they both
suggest that bones believed to be Frideswide's still lie somewhere in
the east end of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Jon
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