Æthelwold of Winchester

Who they were

At Winchester in England, burial of Saint Æthelwold, bishop, who translated the celebrated "Concord of the Monks" for the renewal of monastic discipline, which he had learnt from Saint Dunstan.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 1 August as the bishop of Winchester who worked for the renewal of monastic discipline learnt from Saint Dunstan.

Connected on this site

• Alfred the Great Saint
  “Kings from Alfred the Great onwards took an interest in the Benedictine rule, but it was only in the middle of the tenth century that kings became ready to commit substantial funds to its support.” — Wikipedia
• Edward the Martyr Saint
  “He was an important political figure, backing Æthelred the Unready against Edward the Martyr, and playing a major advisory role during Æthelred's minority.” — Wikipedia
• Oswald of Worcester Saint
  “Æthelwold became the leading propagandist for the monastic reform movement, although he made enemies by his ruthless methods, and he was more extreme in his opposition to secular clergy than his fellow reformers, Saint Dunstan and Oswald of Worcester.” — Wikipedia