ST EGWIN, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR

ST EGWIN, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR - 11 JANUARY

SAINT EGWIN, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR

Saint Egwin was of the royal blood of the Mercian kings, devoted himself to the divine service in his youth, and succeeded Ostfor in the episcopal see of Worcester, in 692.

HIS ZEAL IN REPROVING VICE

By his zeal and severity in reproving vice, he stirred up some of his own flock to persecute him, which gave him an opportunity of performing a penitential pilgrimage to Rome.

HE THREW THE KEY INTO THE RIVER

Some legends tell us, that setting out he put on his legs iron shackles, and threw the key into the river Severn, others say the Avon; but found it in the belly of a fish, some say at Rome, others in his passage from France to England.

HE FOUNDED THE FAMOUS ABBEY OF EVESHAM

After his return, with the assistance of Coenred or Kenred, king of Mercia, he founded the famous abbey of Evesham, under the invocation of the Blessed Virgin.

SECURING AN ETERNAL CROWN

After this he undertook a second journey to Rome, in the company of Coenred, king of the Mercians, and of Offa, of the East Saxons, who gave up their temporal principalities to labour with greater earnestness to secure an eternal crown.

AT FIRST, HE WAS BURIED IN THE MONASTERY OF EVESHAM

St Egwin died on December 30, 717, and was buried in the monastery of Evesham. His body was translated to a more honourable place in 1183, probably on January 11, on which day many English Martyrologies mark his festival.

Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Egwin may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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