Bosa of York
7th and 8th-century Archbishop of York and saint
Who they were
Bosa (died c. 705) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of York during the 7th and early 8th centuries. He was educated at Whitby Abbey, where he became a monk. Following Wilfrid's removal from York in 678 the diocese was divided into three, leaving a greatly reduced see of York, to which Bosa was appointed bishop. He was himself removed in 687 and replaced by Wilfrid, but in 691 Wilfrid was once more ejected and Bosa returned to the see. He died in about 705, and subsequently appears as a saint in an 8th-century liturgical calendar.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Butler's Lives of the Saints (Thurston and Attwater) - St Bosa, Bishop of York, 9 March — A Menology of England and Wales also has him: 'At York, the commemoration of St Bosa, Bishop and Confessor'.
- Wikidata Q672738 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Bosa of York (CC BY-SA)
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