St Walstan - Norfolk's Royal Labourer
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- The round tower church near Norwich was once a place of pilgrimage and housed the shrine of St Walstan, a little-known saint, whose relics rested in a fifteenth-century shrine chapel attached to the nave of the church. This video explores the story of St Walstan, who he was, the documentary sources for his life and his saintly cult, as well as the architectural evidence of this place. Walstan is a rather shadowy figure and this exploration throws up more questions than it answers.
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Thank you on both counts!
St Walstan, died 1016, Taken from “Menology of England & Wales, brief memorials of the ancient British and English Saints” Richard Stanton, 1887. St Walstan was a son of wealthy parents, residing at Bawburg, otherwise called Baber, near Norwich. Renounced inheritance and engaged himself as a servant at a farm at Cossey. Notwithstanding his poverty he found ways of assisting the poor. He died working in the field. Remains borne by the people to his native place. Both at Bawburg and Cossey are holy wells bearing his name. In time a chapel was erected to him in his parish church, and Walstan’s name united to Our Blessed Lady as a principal patron Saint. Shrine visited by many pilgrims, especially by husbandmen and agricultural labourers, who honoured the Saint as one of their own body. Nova Legenda as printed AD 1516. These remarks agree with your interpretation. Although canonisation as understood today, (ie reserved to the Bishop of Rome, The Pope) started in 993 when Pope John XV declared St Ulrich of Augsburg, after careful examination of the saint’s life, cultus etc. the process in 1243 was declared by Pope Gregory IX to be the prerogative of a pope who alone could declare a person a saint after an extremely thorough investigation into the life and miracles of the individual under consideration. A process which could take many, many years. Saints are either martyrs or confessors of the faith. Miracles, investigated by a competent body comprised of experts from any religion or none, are still required today as part of the procedure except in certain circumstances such as martyrdom. I think it may be worth pointing out, briefly, when looking at saints pre Pope Gregory IX that local people could declare someone a saint by acclamation providing there was evidence of a ‘cultis’ approved by the local bishop. I find your videos, Dr Barton, so informative, beautifully filmed and inspirational as you take your viewers on a journey to visit the hundreds of churches throughout the country. Something most people will never be able to do. Many thanks
🙏 thank you muchly for always giving us such fascinating mini-docs😀
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And a Surprise M R James inclusion to Boot! ✨🌙📚
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Sorry it’s not more, but I’ll be buying the latest issue of _’The Antiquary’_ too 😊
Great vid! But Ooft those ruptured bowels - gnaaaarly bro 💀
Thanks very much for your support, glad you enjoyed this one!
Thank you for that video, I like your point that whatever the historicity behind it, there was clearly some spiritual power at work. As to the miracles, I can't decide whether I prefer the bowels bursting out or the offering of a wax leg....
The bowel bursting sound hideously dramatic, poor man.
12.04 that face! We’re sure Botticelli didn’t nip over to Norfolk for a busman’s holiday?:)
Isn't it fantastic. Norfolk has a wealth of medieval panel paintings. I often say that if Norfolk's medieval rood screens where in an art gallery people would be flocking in their thousands to see them. As they are in churches, not so much.