ST TATWIN, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY - 30 JULY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY

Saints celebrated on the 30th of July

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

ST TATWIN, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

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Saint Tatwin was Archbishop of Canterbury; he died July 30,  734. A Mercian by birth, he became a monk at Briudun in Worcestershire. 

The Venerable Bede describes him as "a man illustrious for religion and prudence and excellently instructed in the sacred letters". 

HE RECEIVED THE PALLIUM FROM THE POPE

He was elected to succeed Brithwald as Archbishop of Canterbury, and was consecrated there on June 10, 731, afterwards receiving the pallium from the pope.

HE CONSECRATED TWO BISHOPS

During his brief episcopate of three years he blessed Nothbald, the new Abbot of St Augustine’s Abbey, who had succeeded Tatwin’s friend, Albinus, and he also consecrated bishops for Lindsey and Selsey. 

HE IS SAID TO HAVE WRITTEN SOME POEMS IN ANGLO-SAXON

After his death miracles were wrought through his intercession, an account of which was written by Goscelin. Certain rhymed aenigmata or riddles (published by Giles in “Anecdota Bedae”, 1851) are ascribed to him, and he is said to have written some poems in Anglo-Saxon which have perished. 

(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 - 📷 St Michael's Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral)