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...