ST IVES, BISHOP - 25 APRIL

 

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SAINT IVES, BISHOP 

[Saint Ivo, Yves, Ivia of Slepe, Huntingdonshire.]

He was a Persian bishop, who preached the faith in England about the same time with St Augustine, in the seventh century; and having for some time prepared himself for his last passage, by solitude, watching, prayer, and fasting, at Slepe, now St Ives, in Huntingdonshire, he there died and was buried. 

HIS RELICS

His body was found by a ploughman, in a pontifical habit and entire, in 1001, on April 24. By the fame of miracles performed at his relics, many resorted to the place, and a Benedictine priory was there built, though the saint’s body was soon after translated to the great abbey of Ramsey. 

MIRACLES WROUGHT AT HIS TOMB

Whitman, the third abbot at Ramsey, wrote a book of the miracles wrought at his tomb, which was afterwards augmented by Goscelin, a monk of Canterbury, about the year 1096. 

THE CHURCH IN CORNWALL

Pope Alexander V granted a licence to build a church to his honour, in Cornwall, where his name was famous, and is given to a parliamentary borough.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 St Ives Bridge, St Ives, Huntingdonshire - now Cambridgeshire)

➡️ Saint Ives' Companions