Walstan
East Anglian saint
Feast: 30 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Walston (recorded as Walstan in some sources) was an Anglo-Saxon prince, known for the miracles which occurred during and after his life after he became a farm worker. He is a patron saint of farm animals and agricultural workers, who once visited his shrine at the church at Bawburgh, in the English county of Norfolk. Two sources for his life exist: the De Sancto Walstano Confessore in the Nova Legenda Angliæ, printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1516, and known as the English Life; and a later Latin manuscript copied in 1658 from a now lost medieval triptych, now in the Lambeth Palace library in London.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
- Nominis (French Bishops' Conference) — Saint Walstan — "(+ v. 1016)" — the Norfolk farm labourer of Bawburgh, kept on 30 May.
- Wikidata Q7963876 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Saint Walstan (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.