SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 5th of August WELCOME! SAINT OSWALD OF NORTHUMBRIA   The English Saxon kingdom of the Northumbers was founded by Ida in 547. After  Ethelfrid, grandson of Ida, who ruled the whole kingdom of the Northumbers twenty-four years, was slain in battle in 617, his sons Eanfrid, Oswald, and Oswi took refuge among the Scots, where they were instructed in the Christian faith, and received the sacrament of regeneration.  AFTER BOTH HIS BROTHERS HAD BEEN KILLED BY ENEMIES, OSWALD BECAME KING After both his brothers had been killed by enemies, Oswald became king.  He had embraced the faith with his whole heart, and he had no other view than to bring his subjects to the spiritual kingdom of divine grace, and to labour with them to secure a crown of eternal glory.    At that time Cadwalla ravaged all the Northumbrian provinces, not as a conqueror, but as a cruel tyrant, laying every thing waste with fire and ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 29th of February WELCOME! SAINT OSWALD, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Saint Oswald was nephew of St Odo, archbishop of Canterbury, and to Oskitell, bishop first of Dorcester, afterwards of York. He was educated by St Odo, and made dean of Winchester; but passing into France, took the monastic habit at Fleury. Being recalled to serve the church, he succeeded St Dunstan in the see of Worcester about the year 959.  He shone as a bright star in this dignity, and established a monastery of monks at Westberry, a village in his diocese. He was employed by duke Aylwin in superintending his foundation of the great monastery of Ramsey, in an island formed by marshes and the River Ouse in Huntingdonshire, in 972.  HE WAS MADE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK St Oswald was made archbishop of York in 974, and he dedicated the church of Ramsey under the names of the Blessed Virgin, St Benedict, and all holy virgins. St Oswald was almost always occupi...