Saint Osmund

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Saint

Osmund
Bishop of Salisbury
ProvinceCanterbury
DioceseSalisbury
Appointed1078
Term ended3 or 4 December 1099
Orders
Consecrationc. 3 June 1078
Personal details
Born
Seez, Normandy
Died3 or 4 December 1099
Salisbury
Sainthood
Feast day16 July, 4 December
Venerated inCatholic Church
Church of England
Canonized1 January 1457
by Callixtus III
Patronageinsanity, mental illness, mentally ill people, paralysed people, paralysis, ruptures, toothache
Maurice
ShrinesSalisbury Cathedral

Osmund

Norman conquest of England, he served as Lord Chancellor (c. 1070–1078) and as the second bishop of Salisbury, or Old Sarum
.

Life

Osmund, a native of Normandy, accompanied William, Duke of Normandy to England, and was made Chancellor of the realm about 1070.[1] He was employed in many civil transactions and was engaged as one of the Chief Commissioners for drawing up the Domesday Book.

Osmund became

Baal
."

Henry I's biographer C. Warren Hollister[5] suggests the possibility that Osmund was in part responsible for Henry's education; Henry was consistently in the bishop's company during his formative years, around 1080 to 1086.

In 1086 Osmund was present at the

Great Gemot held at Old Sarum when the Domesday Book was accepted and the great landowners swore fealty to the sovereign.[6]

Osmund died on the night of 3 December 1099,

Henry VIII. A flat slab with the simple inscription MXCIX
has lain in various parts of the cathedral. In 1644 it was in the middle of the Lady Chapel. It is now under the easternmost arch on the south side.

Works

Saint Osmond

Osmund's work was threefold — first, the building of the cathedral at Old Sarum, which was consecrated on 5 April 1092.[2]

Second was the constitution of a

canons, a subdean, and succentor. All save the last two were bound to a residence. These canons were "secular", each living in his own house. Their duties were to be special companions and advisers of the bishop, to carry out with fitting solemnity the full round of liturgical services and to do missionary work in the surrounding districts. There was formed a school for clergy of which the chancellor was the head. The cathedral was thoroughly constituted "the Mother Church" of the diocese. Osmund's canons were renowned for their musical talent and their zeal for learning, and had great influence on the foundation of other cathedral bodies.[2]

Third was the formation of the "

liturgical books.[7]
Intended primarily for his own diocese, the Ordinal of Osmund, regulating the Divine Office, Mass, and Calendar, was used, within a hundred years, almost throughout England, Wales, and Ireland, and was introduced into Scotland about 1250.

The "Register of St. Osmund" is a collection of documents without any chronological arrangement, gathered together after his time, divided roughly into two parts: the "Consuetudinary" (

"Consuetudinary" was taken from an older copy, re-arranged with additions and modifications and ready probably when Richard Poore consecrated the cathedral at New Salisbury in 1225. A copy, almost verbatim the same as this, was taken from the older book for the use of St. Patrick's, Dublin, which was erected into a cathedral and modelled on the church at Sarum by Henry de Loundres who was bishop from 1213 to 1228.[8]

William of Malmesbury[9] in summing up Osmund's character says he was "so eminent for chastity that common fame would itself blush to speak otherwise than truthfully concerning his virtue. Stern he might appear to penitents, but not more severe to them than to himself. Free from ambition, he neither imprudently wasted his own substance, nor sought the wealth of others".

Osmund gathered together a good library for his canons. A late-medieval source notes, somewhat disdainfully, that even as a bishop he would scribe, illuminate and bind books himself; by that period this was eccentric behaviour, but it was not so in 11th-century England.

niche 178 on the west front of Salisbury Cathedral
.

Osmund's canonization took almost 230 years,[12] with papal proceedings that started in 1228 not concluding until 1457.[13]

Osmund is remembered in the Church of England with a commemoration on 16 July.[14]

Notes

  1. Latin
    : Osmundus

Citations

  1. ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 83
  2. ^ a b c Parker, Anselm. "St. Osmund." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 28 Mar. 2013
  3. ^ a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 270
  4. ^ William of Malmesbury, Gesta pontificum anglorum, 183.
  5. ^ Hollister, Henry I (Yale English Monarchs) 2001:36f.
  6. ^ Edward A. Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England.
  7. ISBN 978-0-521-80847-7
    .
  8. ^ Todd, in The British Magazine vols. xxx and xxxi.
  9. ^ William of Maslmesbury, Gesta pontificum anglorum 184.
  10. ISBN 071900926X
    (US edn. Cornell, 1985)
  11. ^ British History Online Bishops of Salisbury accessed on 30 October 2007
  12. ^ Swanson Religion and Devotion p. 315
  13. ^ Swanson Religion and Devotion p. 148
  14. ^ "The Calendar". The Church of England. Retrieved 27 March 2021.

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Political offices
Preceded by Lord Chancellor
1070–1078 		Succeeded by
Maurice
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Herman
 Bishop of Salisbury
1078–1099 		Succeeded by

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