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ST. WOLSTAN

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Benedictine, and Bishop of Worcester, b. at Long Itchington, Warwickshire,
England, about 1008; d. at Worcester, 19 January, 1095. Educated at the great
monastic schools of Evesham and Peterborough, he resolutely combated and
overcame the temptations of his youth, and entered the service of Brithege,
Bishop of Worcester, who ordained him priest about 1038. Refusing all
ecclesiastical preferment, he became a novice in the great priory of Worcester,
and after holding various offices in the monastery became cathedral prior there.
He held this position, edifying all by his charity, holiness of life, and strict
observance of the rule, until 1062, when the See of Worcester fell vacant by the
translation of Bishop Aldred to the Archbishopric of York. Two Roman cardinals,
who had been Wolstan's guests at Worcester during Lent, recommended the holy
prior to King Edward for the vacant see, to which he was consecrated on 8
September, 1062. Not a man of special learning or commanding intellect, he
devoted his whole life to the care of his diocese, visiting, preaching, and
confirming without intermission, rebuilding his cathedral in the simple Saxon
style, planting new churches everywhere, and retaining the ascetic personal
habits which he had acquired in the cloister. His life, notwithstanding his
assiduous labours, was one of continuous prayer and recollection; the Psalms
were always on his lips, and he recited the Divine Office aloud with his
attendants as he rode through the country in discharge of his episcopal duties.
Wolstan was the last English bishop appointed under a Saxon king, the last
episcopal representative of the Church of Bede and of Cuthbert, and the link
between it and the Church of Lanfranc and Anselm. After the Conquest, when
nearly all the Saxon nobles and clergy were deprived of their offices and
honours in favour of the Normans, Wolstan retained his see, and gradually won
the esteem and confidence both of Lanfranc and of the Conqueror himself. Ælred
of Rievaulx tells the legend of his being called upon to resign his bishopric,
and of his laying his crozier on the tomb of Edward the Confessor at
Westminster. The crozier remained immoveable — a sign from heaven, as was
believed, that the holy bishop was to retain his see. He survived both William
the Conqueror and Lanfranc, and was one of the consecrators of St. Anselm.


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APA citation. Hunter-Blair, O. (1912). St. Wolstan. In The Catholic
Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15687a.htm

MLA citation. Hunter-Blair, Oswald. "St. Wolstan." The Catholic Encyclopedia.
Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15687a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Charlie Martin.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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