Oswald
Oswald male forename, name of two saints.
St Oswald (d. 642), king of Northumbria and martyr, killed in battle against the pagan king Penda of Mercia; his body was mutilated as a sacrifice to Odin, and his relics were subsequently dispersed. His head was buried at Lindisfarne, and was taken with the body of Cuthbert when the monks evacuated the island in 875.
Oswald was venerated as a warrior king who combined traditional Anglo Saxon heroism with Christian fortitude and sacrifice; his feast day was celebrated from the late 7th century. He is a patron saint of soldiers, and his emblems are a head and a raven. His feast day is 5 August.
St Oswald of York (d. 992), English prelate and Benedictine monk. As Archbishop of York, he founded several monasteries and, with St Dunstan, revived the Church and learning in 10th-century England. His feast day is 28 February.
St Oswald (d. 642), king of Northumbria and martyr, killed in battle against the pagan king Penda of Mercia; his body was mutilated as a sacrifice to Odin, and his relics were subsequently dispersed. His head was buried at Lindisfarne, and was taken with the body of Cuthbert when the monks evacuated the island in 875.
Oswald was venerated as a warrior king who combined traditional Anglo Saxon heroism with Christian fortitude and sacrifice; his feast day was celebrated from the late 7th century. He is a patron saint of soldiers, and his emblems are a head and a raven. His feast day is 5 August.
St Oswald of York (d. 992), English prelate and Benedictine monk. As Archbishop of York, he founded several monasteries and, with St Dunstan, revived the Church and learning in 10th-century England. His feast day is 28 February.
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