(I’m a bit short of ideas for blog posts so resorting to a few saints over the next few days!)
When the Normans conquered England in 1066 King William replaced every English bishop with one of his own men. Every bishop except Wulfstan who had been educated in an English monastery, become a monk in Worcester and made bishop there in 1062. He was known to be a very Saintly man – perhaps that was why he was spared and was the nephew of Archbishop Wulfstan who had previously been Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York
Wulfstan tried to stop a slave trade based in Bristol and rebuilt Worcester cathedral. He remained Bishop for 32 years and died in 1095.After his death news spread of miraculous cures that took place at his tomb and he was canonized in 1203.
Later King John requested to be buried next to Wulfstan’s tomb in Worcester after he died. And he was buried there in 1216.
| From St Johns, Worcester |
As a true English Saint I do think he ought to have some weather rhymes attached to his day – but nothing is mentioned anywhere.
(Info from ‘A Calendar of Saints’ by James Bentley and from internet)
Thanks everyone for comments about the batch cooking, sorry for not answering – I fell into some internet rabbit holes looking for things to blog about next week! Luckily I found a good ideas.
Back Tomorrow
Sue
