February 29 is the most appropriate time to celebrate those who should have
been saints, but who never quite made it. So lets hear it for Origen, and
for Theodore of Mopsuestia, Ibas of Edessa, and Theodoret of Cyrrhus (aka
the Three Chapters).
Ian Tompkins
At 11:31 29/02/00 +0000, you wrote:
>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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Ian G Tompkins, MA, BD, DPhil
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