British Saints

BRITISH AND IRISH SAINTS OF THE WEEK

(Including saints having a connection with these lands.)

When the Church in the British Isles begins to venerate her own saints, then the Church there will grow. - St Arsenios of Paros. (1877)

(Last week, there were no British and Irish saints in the Calendar.)

Week commencing Sunday 30 March 2025. We commemorate the following saints:

Sunday - St Osburga of Coventry, 1015

Tuesday - St Agilbert of Dorchester and Paris, 690

St Osburga - All we can say about St. Osburga is that she was the abbess of a convent founded in Coventry in Mercia, probably in the seventh or eighth century. She was greatly venerated in the Middle Ages, and this continued even after the Reformation. She is the patron saint of Coventry.

St Agilbert - St Bede tells us what we know about St Agilbert. Probably born in France, he was ordained bishop and then came to England. Bede says he studied in Ireland, and he was appointed Bishop of the West Saxons with his see based at Dorchester. He then travelled north to Northumbria, ordained Wilfrid (who became Bishop of York), and attended the Synod of Whitby on the side of the Roman party. He later returned to France and became Bishop of Paris.