Philibert

The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 09, August · S. Philibert, Ab. offumieges and Noirmoutier ; circ. a.d. 687.

S. Philibert, Ab. offumieges and Noirmoutier ; circ. a.d. 687.

SS. Leovigild and Christopher, MM. at Cordova; a.d. 852.

S. Bernard, Ab. D., of Clairvaux ; a.d. 1153.

S. Ronald, M. in Orkney ; a.d. 1158.

S. OSWIN, K. M.

(a.d. 651.)

[Anciently venerated in Northumbria. Authorities: — John of Tyne- mouth's Acts of S. Oswin ; mention by Bede, H. E. iii. 14 ; Vita Oswini in the publications of the Surtees Society, 1838. The following is, for the most part, from Montalembert's Monies of the West.]

the death of S. Oswald, Northumbria fell a prey, first to the ravages of Mercian invasion, then to the complications and weakness of a divided succession. Like the Merovingian, and even the Carolingian Franks, the Anglo-Saxons, and particularly the Angles of Northumbria, could not resist the inclination which led them to accept or incite the division of a kingdom among several princes, as soon as there appeared several heirs of a deceased king. Oswald left a son in childhood, whose claims were not at that moment taken into considera- tion. His brother Oswy, still in the flower of his youth, at once took his place in Bernicia — that is to say, in the northern part of Northumbria. As for Deira, it fell to a prince of the Deirian dynasty, grand nephew to Ella, the founder of that race. Osric, after a short reign, had fallen

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Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness

In Herio insula sancti Philiberti Abbatis.