✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: March 2

St. Chad

Bishop · d. 672

Patron of —

A humble English bishop of Lichfield, trained at Lindisfarne, who traveled his vast diocese on foot until the archbishop ordered him to ride for his health.

So determined was he to preach to everyone that he walked everywhere, until Archbishop Theodore personally lifted him onto a horse.

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