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A suitable patron for the Student Loans Company, perhaps? On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:48:18 +0100 (BST) =?iso-8859-1?q?Bill=20East?= <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Interim Saints - April 3rd > > > RICHARD, bishop of Chichester (A.D. 1253) > > S. Richard was the second son of Richard Backedine and Alice, his wife, > of Wyke, in the diocese of Worcester . . . After that, S. Richard went > to Oxford, and thence to continue his studies in Paris, and there he > lodged in the same room with two other poor scholars, and fed on bread > and porridge (potagium); and so poor were they that the three had only > one respectable coat between them, and could only go alternately to the > lectures in the coat, whilst the others sat at home without. thence he > returned to Oxford, that he might take his degree in his own land . . . > >From Oxford S. Richard went to the then celebrated university of > Bologna, where he remained seven years, and became so proficient in > canon law that the professor would have married him to his only > daughter . . . %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%