Osana
Saint Osana | |
|---|---|
| Born | Roman Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy |
| Feast | 18 June |
Osana was a
Gregorian reform
.
Giraldus records
"In the north of England beyond the Humber, in the church of Hovedene, the concubine of the rector incautiously sat down on the tomb of St. Osana, sister of king Osred, which projected like a wooden seat; on wishing to retire, she could not be removed, until the people came to her assistance; her clothes were rent, her body was laid bare, and severely afflicted with many strokes of discipline, even till the blood flowed; nor did she regain her liberty, until by many tears and sincere repentance she had showed evident signs of compunction."[6]
There had been no previous record of Osana. On the authority of Giraldus Cambrensis, the
Notes
- Giraldus Cambrensis, The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales II.2
- ^ For the history of canon law regarding clerical concubines, see E. Jombart, Dictionnaire du Droit Canonique, vol. III;1513-34, s.v. "Concubinage"
- ^ E. Deanealy, Sidelights on the Anglo-Saxon Church (1962:134-36) gives evidence for the respectability of married clergy in the Anglo-Saxon church; a concubine did not have the status of a wife, needless to say.
- Henry of Huntington's Historia Anglorum perhaps disingenuously reports the prohibition of 1102 as a novelty, "something formerly not prohibited"; see Nancy Partner, "Henry of Huntingdon: Clerical Celibacy and the Writing of History" Church History 42.4 (December 1973:467-475).
- ^ C.N.L. Brooke, "Gregorian reform in action: clerical marriage in England, 1050-1200," Cambridge Historical Journal 12.1 (1956:1-21).
- ^ Giraldus Cambrensisus, on-line text.
- ^ Giraldus Cambrensis 1978, pp. 64–65
References
- Giraldus Cambrensis (1978), The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales, Penguin Classics, OCLC 175108105