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Since last year I have rephotographed most of the St William window in York Minster (window nVII) and put the images into an album:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/albums/72157662331979333
Gordon Plumb
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Subject: [M-R] FEAST - A Saint for the Day (June 8): St. William of York
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William was a son of Herbert the Chamberlain, treasurer of Winchester. He in turn became treasurer of York Cathedral. In January 1141 he was elected archbishop of York in a contested election. The archbishop of Canterbury declined to consecrate him and his consecration by the bishop of Winchester was not accepted by several popes. Eugenius III had him deposed at the Council of Reims in 1147. Anastasius IV restored him in 1153/54. William returned to York in 1154 and operated his one known lifetime miracle: the absence of fatalities when the city's wooden bridge over the Ouse collapsed under the weight of the crowd that had come to see his entry. William died within the month, seemingly poisoned. Miracles were later reported at his tomb. William was canonized in 1227; in January 1284 he was translated in great ceremony from his tomb in the nave to a newly built one in the choir; king Edward I and his queen Eleanor of Castile were both present and Edward himself helped carry the saint's bones to their new resting place. A shrine was erected around the tomb in ca. 1330; in ca. 1471 a larger shrine to William with its own altar was erected in the east end between the high altar and the Lady Chapel. Both shrines were destroyed during the Reformation (remnants of them may be seen in the Yorkshire Museum). William's remains, discovered in the Minster in the 1960s, are now entombed in the crypt. Today is his day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology.
Some period-pertinent images of St. William of York:
a) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (ca. 1330) in the cathedral and abbey church of St Alban in St Albans:
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/stiffleaf/16436505/in/keyword/197347/self
Detail view:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7549203@N04/4000686709
b) as portrayed in relief (the miracle of the bridge) on a fifteenth(?)-century plaque posted to Wikipedia without indication of its present location:
http://tinyurl.com/hs8mzt9
On this day a year ago Gordon Plumb posted links to various depictions of William of York in glass:
http://tinyurl.com/hm3wfnj
Best,
John Dillon
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