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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