Saint Oswald of Worcester
Gender: Male
Year of birth: Unknown
Year of repose: 992AD
Feast day: 29th February
Consecrated Bishop of Worcester in 961AD and later Archbishop of York from 972AD. He founded a number of monasteries, including Ramsey Abbey, and reformed another seven, including Winchcombe in Gloucestershire and Pershore and Evesham in Worcestershire. Oswald also switched the cathedral chapter of Worcester from secular clergy to monks. While archbishop, he brought the scholar Abbo of Fleury to teach, and he spent two years in England, mostly at Ramsey. Oswald died in 992, while washing the feet of the poor. His shrine was at Worcester cathedral, but this was sadly destroyed at the Reformation.