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Showing posts with label St. Æthelwold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Æthelwold. Show all posts
06 January 2026

Dunstan's Comeback

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Now brought back to England by Edgar the Peaceable after the demise of Eadwig , Dunstan was made Bishop of Worcester and Bishop of London....
04 January 2026

Promoted by a Miracle

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St. Dunstan's life had its ups and downs, as the Wheel of Fortune predicts. Driven from one king's court because of the jealousy of...
02 January 2026

Establishing Monasteries

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When Æthelwold was made Bishop of Winchester in 963, the discipline of the priests there had suffered. Records say that priests there did n...
01 January 2026

Æthelwold of Winchester

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It was a Bishop of Winchester who made a former Bishop of Winchester so prominent. Æthelwold of Winchester decided to rededicate the church...
27 January 2022

The Elf Village

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I mentioned previously that St. Æthelwold had a single church dedicated to him in England. It is in Alvingham, in the East Lindsey district ...
26 January 2022

St. Æthelwold's Miracles

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Æthelwold, one of the Three English Holy Hierarchs, saintly figures who spurred the revival of monasticism in England, was a truly saintly m...
25 January 2022

St. Æthelwold

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Æthelwold was born about 910CE to a wealthy Winchester family. He served at the court of King Æthelstan (reigned 924-939), learning as much ...
24 January 2022

Wulfstan the Cantor

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Of the countless people who lived in the Middle Ages and accomplished things—writing, building, etc.—a very few are remembered by name. One ...