✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: February 28

St. Oswald of Worcester

Bishop · d. 992

Patron of —

A leading reformer of the English Church in the tenth century, archbishop of York and bishop of Worcester, who renewed monastic life and cared for the poor.

By tradition he died washing the feet of the poor, as he did every day of Lent — kneeling at the twelfth pair when his heart gave out.

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