Event: Commemoration of saint/calendar-entering, Commemoration of the deadOswald 1.commemoration on 5 August

Scholarly Info
Description 5 August: Calendar-commemoration of King Oswald 1.
Primary Source Info
Original Text nonas Agusti: Osualdi regis

Notes:

*Wilson 1918, p. 36, observes: 'This entry is apparently by the original hand, and marks the date of St. Oswald 1's death at the battle of Maserfelth in 642. (Bede, H.E., III, ix.) It seems clear that it is not to be regarded merely as a historical note, or as the indication of an obit, but rather as the note of a saint's day. We know from the narrative of Bede that the cultus of St. Oswald 1 was established soon after his death, not only in England and Ireland, but in Germany and that St. Willibrord himself had taken with him to Frisia relics of the saint. (See Bede, H.E., III, xiii, and Mr. Plummer's notes ad loc.) The saint's name does not appear in the earliest MSS. of Mart. Hieron., and the mention of him in Oen is probably derived from Irish tradition. In the later Epternach martyrology (MS. Paris. Lat. 10158) the 5th of August is marked as the feast of St. Oswald 1, king and martyr, and also as the day of a special commemoration of St. Willibrord.'

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