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30th December

St Egwin’s Day/ Five Gold Rings

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Today is St Egwin’s Day. Egwin was a seventh century English saint about whom a number of far fetched tales are told. Denounced as a liar and a thief, Egwin proved his innocence through the unusual method of locking his own feet in manacles, walking to Rome and, when in the presence of the Pope, converting a fish he had bought into the key to his fetters. He founded Evesham Abbey and allegedly deflected a large clod of earth thrown by a jealous Satan at the new building by the power of prayer. The earth instead fell on Warwickshire where it was eventually named Meon Hill. Egwin also punished a group of ungodly blacksmiths who were rude to him by giving them tails. What allegories lie behind these odd stories are very difficult to discern.

Today is also the Fifth Day of Christmas on which, according to the old carol The Twelve Days of Christmas, the singer’s true love presents him or her with Five Gold Rings. The song originated as a Christmas game in which singers were required to remember and recite the growing number of daily gifts, and failure to do so resulted in elimination from the game. The first line ‘a Partridge in a Pear Tree’ is likely to be a mishearing: the original line was ‘a Part of a Juniper Tree’, a plant that gives off a sweet smell when burnt and apparently wards off evil spirits, which is a rather more logical Christmas gift than the famous partridge sitting in its pear tree.

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St Egwin's Church, Norton

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St Egwin https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/366

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The sixth day of Christmas (December 30) is the day of St Egwin of Worcester. He was known as a protector of orphans and the widowed and a fair judge.

Also means the 6 days of creation of Mama Earth & one day of rest🕊️✡️✝️

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More Saints of the Day December 30

St. Anysia

St. Anysius

St. Egwin of Evesham

St. Eugene

Bl. John Alcober

St. Liberius of Ravenna

St. Mansuetus

St. Raynerius

St. Sabinus

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Saint of the Day - 30 December - Saint Egwin of Worcester OSB (Died 717)

Saint of the Day – 30 December – Saint Egwin of Worcester OSB (Died 717)

Saint of the Day – 30 December – Saint Egwin of Worcester OSB (Died 717) Bishop, Benedictine Monk, Reformer and Penitent, miracle-worker – born in the 7th century in England and died on 30 December 717 at Evesham Abbey, Mercia of natural causes. Scenes from the life of Saint Egwin, St Lawrence’s Church, Evesham Egwin of Worcester was of a noble family, possibly a descendant of the Mercian…

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St Egwin, Third Bishop of Worcester, Founder of Evesham Abbey.

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St Wigstan and the Benedictine Abbey of Evesham

St Wigstan (Wystan) was a prince of the royal family of Mercia, who was murdered by his cousin in the year 850. Little is known of St Wigstan’s life, although he was quickly regarded as a martyr after his death. St Wigstan was initially buried in the mausoleum of his grandfather, King Wiglaf, which may be the surviving Saxon crypt under the Anglican parish church at Repton.

in 1019, Alfwaerd, Abbot of Evesham, asked King Cnut to give his abbey St  Wigstan’s relics. This Cnut did, after which Evesham became the centre of St Wigstan’s cult. It is of particular interest because St Wigstan’s sanctity and miracles were suspected by some to be bogus, yet they were verified by the authorities twice over. In Lanfranc’s time, the Norman Abbot of Evesham, Walter of Cerisy, subjected St Wistan’s relics to an ordeal by fire, from which they emerged unscathed. Over a century later, according to Thomas of Marlborough, the supposed miracle of ‘hair’ growing at Wistanstowe each year on the saint’s feast day (on the ground where the martyr was believed to have been killed), was verified by a commission sent by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury. Whatever the substance of this miracle may have been, there was no doubt of the extraordinary phenomena. St Wigstan’s shrine and relics disappeared along with those of Evesham’s founder, St Egwin, when the great Benedictine abbey was dissolved in January 1540. Three ancient English churches were dedicated in St Wigstan’s honour. Today is the saint’s feast day.

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SAINTS DECEMBER 30

St. Anysia, Roman Catholic Martyr of Greece. She was a wealthy woman of Salonika, in Thessaly, who used her personal funds to aid the poor. A soldier accosted her in the street and tried to drag her to a pagan sacrifice. Anysia resisted and was killed when the soldier attacked her with his sword. Dec. 30

The Martyr Saints of China, or Augustine Zhao Rong and his 119 companions, are saints of the Roman Catholic Church. The 87 Chinese Catholics and 33 Western missionaries, from the mid-17th century to 1930, were martyred because of their ministry and, in some cases, for their refusal to apostatize. Many died in the Boxer Rebellion, in which xenophobic peasants slaughtered 30,000 Chinese converts to Christianity along with missionaries and other foreigners. Dec. 30

Bl. John Alcober, Roman Catholic Dominican Priest and Martyr in China. He was held in prison until strangled to death. He died with Blessed Peter Sanz and other Dominicans. Dec. 30

St. Egwin, 717 A.D. An English noble who became the bishop of Worcester, England, in 692. Chargedwith being overly strict by his clergy, Egwin went to Rome. Upon his return to England, he founded Eversham Monastery with the aid of the kingdom of Mercia. A vision of Mary prompted this founding. In 709, Egwin returned to Rome, accompanied by King Cenred of Mercia and King Offa of the East Saxons.

ST. FELIX I, POPE Dec. 30 A Roman priest, Felix reigned as Pope from 269 to 274. He celebrated Masses over the tombs that guarded the relics of the Christian martyrs, and strongly defended the doctrines of the Trinity of God and the Incarnation of the Word. Dec.30

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Icon From The Chapel of the Holy Innocents in Bethlehem

More Saints of the Day December 30

 St. Anysia 

St. Anysius 

St. Egwin of Evesham 

St. Eugene 

Bl. John Alcober 

St. Liberius of Ravenna 

St. Mansuetus

 St. Raynerius 

St. Sabinus

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St Egwin

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SAINTS DECEMBER 30

St. Egwin, 717 A.D. An English noble who became the bishop of Worcester, England, in 692. Chargedwith being overly strict by his clergy, Egwin went to Rome. Upon his return to England, he founded Eversham Monastery with the aid of the kingdom of Mercia. A vision of Mary prompted this founding. In 709, Egwin returned to Rome, accompanied by King Cenred of Mercia and King Offa of the East Saxons.

St. Anysia, Roman Catholic Martyr of Greece. She was a wealthy woman of Salonika, in Thessaly, who used her personal funds to aid the poor. A soldier accosted her in the street and tried to drag her to a pagan sacrifice. Anysia resisted and was killed when the soldier attacked her with his sword. Dec. 30

The Martyr Saints of China, or Augustine Zhao Rong and his 119 companions, are saints of the Roman Catholic Church. The 87 Chinese Catholics and 33 Western missionaries, from the mid-17th century to 1930, were martyred because of their ministry and, in some cases, for their refusal to apostatize. Many died in the Boxer Rebellion, in which xenophobic peasants slaughtered 30,000 Chinese converts to Christianity along with missionaries and other foreigners. Dec. 30

Bl. John Alcober, Roman Catholic Dominican Priest and Martyr in China. He was held in prison until strangled to death. He died with Blessed Peter Sanz and other Dominicans. Dec. 30

ST. FELIX I, POPE Dec. 30 A Roman priest, Felix reigned as Pope from 269 to 274. He celebrated Masses over the tombs that guarded the relics of the Christian martyrs, and strongly defended the doctrines of the Trinity of God and the Incarnation of the Word. Dec.30

Holy Family

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More Saints of the Day

St. Anysia

St. Anysius 

St. Egwin of Evesham 

St. Eugene 

Bl. John Alcober 

St. Liberius of Ravenna 

St. Mansuetus 

St. Raynerius 

St. Sabinus

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Memorials of the Saints - 30 December

Memorials of the Saints – 30 December

St Anysia of Thessalonica St Anysius of Thessalonica St Egwin of Worcester St Elias of Conques St Eugene of Milan St Pope Felix I St Geremarus Blessed Giovanni Maria Boccardo (1848-1913) St Hermes of Moesia St Jucundus of Aosta St Liberius of Ravenna Bl Margaret Colonna St Perpetuus of Tours Bl Raoul of Vaucelles St Raynerius of Aquila Bl Richard of Wedinghausen St Ruggero of Canne St Sebastian of…