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Also Great Malvern Priory, NIII, here shown as Bishop of Worcester, 15thC.:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15153918430
Gordon Plumb
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Subject: [M-R] FEAST - A Saint for the Day (Feb. 29): St. Oswald of Worcester (and of York)
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A leading figure of the tenth-century Benedictine reform in England, Oswald of Worcester (d. 992) was a nephew of St. Oda the Severe, archbishop of Canterbury, from whom he received some of his early training, and a more distant relative of Oscytel, archbishop of York, who became his patron after Oda's death. Oswald made his monastic profession at Fleury-sur-Loire and was a monk there until the very early 960s when he was named bishop of Worcester.
At Worcester, though Oswald founded a monastery next to the cathedral he seems not to have converted his chapter into a monastic one (as was alleged in the twelfth century). He also founded Ramsey Abbey on an island in the fens in today's Cambridgeshire and re-founded Winchcombe Abbey in his own diocese. In late 971 or in the first half of 972 Oswald was elevated to the archbishopric of York but kept much wealthier Worcester in plurality, which is where he died. A cult sprang up almost immediately; its centers were at Worcester and at Ramsey. Oswald has an early Vita ascribed to Byrhtferth of Ramsey (BHL 6374; between 997 and 1002) and a fuller Vita et Miracula by Eadmer (BHL 6375-76; ca. 1115), who was asked to write it by the monks of Worcester. His _dies natalis_ is 29. February, as is also his day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology.
The fifth item here is an expandable view of a page in the later tenth-century so-called Ramsey Psalter (London, BL, Harley MS 2904), said by Nicholas Brooks in his Oxford DNB entry on Oswald (v. 42, pp. 79-84) "likely to have been made for Oswald's own use at York or Worcester":
http://tinyurl.com/29txs4
The manuscript in full:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_2904
A page of views of Worcester Cathedral:
http://tinyurl.com/2m2nbc
This is very largely a twelfth- and thirteenth-century building, restored in the nineteenth century.
A view of the remains of Ramsey Abbey's fifteenth-century gatehouse:
http://www.ramseyabbey.co.uk/images/Abbey%20Gate%20House.jpg
Oswald (at right; at left, an unidentified archbishop) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century Great West Window in York Minster (ca. 1338-1339; photograph courtesy of Gordon Plumb):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4708766317/
Best,
John Dillon
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