Wulfstan: The Life of a Saint

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In the years of Wollstone's life,
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from around 1008 to 1095,
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eight kings ruled over England,
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from Æthelred the Unready to William II.
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Political instability and Danish and Norman
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invasions were the backdrop to Wollstone's life.
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He was the last surviving Anglo -Saxon bishop.
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who played a significant role in the preservation of English
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values in an Anglo -Norman age.
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He redesigned Worcester Cathedral,
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helped the poor,
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and he fought against the slave trade out of Bristol.
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Over the next half hour,
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I will journey through the life and works of Worcester,
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his early years and education,
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and his time at Worcester as Prior and Bishop.
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I will discover why Wulfton became a saint and how he
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is celebrated today.
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In
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1008,
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in the town of Long Itchington in Warwickshire,
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Wulfton,
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a name probably influenced by the Archbishop of York at the
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time, was born to Wolfgiver and Athelstan.
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What we know about Wulfton's life was written
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soon after he died by his chaplain and later biographer Coleman.
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William of Malmesbury translated it into Latin,
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calling it the Vita Wolfstani,
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but Coleman's original is now lost.
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At around the age of five,
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Wolfston started his education at Evesham Abbey,
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about 30 miles from Long Etchington,
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which was at least a day's travel.
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Here,
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Wolfston would first experience a monastic environment,
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an environment that would shape his beliefs.
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who would have learnt to read both Latin and English,
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who would learn psalms and hymns,
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and learn the ways of the Benedictine rule.
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His time
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at Yvesham was poorly recorded by the Wieter Wolfstani,
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perhaps because he spent a short time here.
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Around 1016,
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Wolfstern continued his education at Peterborough Abbey,
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which would have been a considerable distance from his hometown.
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It was also in 1016 that King Canute succeeded
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the throne after his invasion against Aethelred.
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Canute had stabilised the nation and the government
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continued traditionally.
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The stories
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that we are told by the Vita Wolfstani are the ones that give
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us an indication as to how his schooling had influenced
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Wollstone's life.
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A story that particularly stands out is when Walfston returned home
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from Peterborough in about 10 .23.
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When returning home,
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a girl in the village started to do an alluring dance in front
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of him. The Vito Ostani doesn't suggest what happened next,
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but Walfston felt weak and he ran away and hid in the bushes
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and cried.
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This event helped to convince Walfston that
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a life of celibacy was intended for him.
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In 1033,
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almost ten years after leaving Peterborough,
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Bishop Brychtheyar,
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who had been made bishop that year,
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appointed Wulfston as Episcopal Clerk.
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Impressed by Wulfston's work,
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he was later ordained and appointed to Hawkesbury Church in Gloucestershire,
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which belonged to Perthshire Abbey.
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Wulfston became a model priest.
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he would set himself on a course of fasting and abstinence to
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grow in spiritual strength.
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He was only here for a few years,
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and in William of Mansbury's Deeds of English Bishops
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and in the Vita Wolfstani,
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it tells the story of a goose that he ordered to be roasted.
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The smell of the cooking wafted into the chancel
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in which Wollstone was celebrating Mass.
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The smell of the cooking put him off and distracted him
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at an important point in the liturgy.
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Vito of Stani wrote,
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His soul melted in delight,
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as it were for tasting the goose.
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He was angered by his weakness,
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and so took an oath on the blessed sacrament to never
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eat meat again,
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and this was years before he joined the Benedictine rule.
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Bishop Bricktheyer offered him a much richer benefice
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just outside of Worcester,
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but Wollstone was not tempted.
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to refuse the offer.
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It was then in around 1037 that
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Wulfston decided that he would become a monk,
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so that he could offer to God not only fragments of
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his life, but the whole of it.
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His time at Evesham and Peterborough,
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and the stories of the village girl and the cooked goose,
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which both distracted him away from his spiritual destiny,
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showed that his early years would set Wulfston on
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a path
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that would inevitably take him to the monastery at Worcester.
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Ever since Benedict of Nursia
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wrote his rule in the early 530s,
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became like how one historian put it,
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the principal blueprint for monastic life.
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Over 400 years later,
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Oswald founded the Benedictine monastery here at Worcester.
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Alston would then embark his life at Worcester as
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a Benedictine monk.
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The life of a monk was a heroic struggle to conquer his
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free will and sensuality.
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He wouldn't own property and would live a life of
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abstinence and silence.
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The 10th century regularis concordia
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was used at Worcester,
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which laid out how monks should observe the Benedictine rule.
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I spoke to Dr.
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David Morrison about the life of a monk in Wollstone's time.
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The kind of manuscripts that Wolfstan would have seen included this collection
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of saints' lives from the 11th century,
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and also biblical texts.
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This,
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for example, is a book of Isaiah with a commentary by Saint Jerome,
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made in Worcester.
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Or perhaps this one,
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which is Bede's work on grammar and poetry.
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They were written on calf skin,
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by and large,
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and the Anglo -Saxons used pumice stone to smooth down both
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sides of the skin.
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And then they used a variety of ingredients for the ink,
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but particularly iron sulphate and oak apple gall.
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And there's some kind of chemical reaction between those two,
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which is one of the reasons why medieval ink always looks so dark.
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There would have been a variety of services in the Benedictine monasteries,
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so it would have started off at midnight with matins running through
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Lords,
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Prime, Terse,
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Sex,
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Gnome, Vespers and Compline right at the end of the day,
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and then they would have had a short rest before they had to get up again at midnight for the next
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round of services,
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so it must have been quite tiring for the monks.
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Alston went through a series of promotions in his early years
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as a monk.
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He was first appointed novice master,
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where he educated boys who were destined for the church,
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and that's where he probably told his stories of chastity and abstinence.
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He was then made the canter,
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or placenta,
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where he led the contact of the liturgy.
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He was then made the sacrist,
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which enabled him to have more time for prayer.
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It was at this point that Wulfton went
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through what is believed as a point of crisis in his life.
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He would often hold continuous vigils throughout the night,
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and he had no feather bed,
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which other monks did.
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He did not yield himself to sleep,
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but snatched at it.
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During the night,
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Wolfson would often use other churches to pray.
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The Vita Wolf Starney writes that one time in St Peter's Church,
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which was the church before Oswald built his cathedral,
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Orfton was praying and a peasant disturbed him and
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didn't like his presence.
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Orfton continued to pray but the peasant charged
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at him and started to wrestle with him.
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Orfton saw this as the devil in disguise and so
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fought back and pushed him away.
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The fight lasted quite a while,
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but eventually the peasant gave up,
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but stamped on Wollstone's foot before leaving the church.
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In December 1038,
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Bishop Bitheyar died,
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and Bishop Lifing succeeded him.
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Lifing was an ambitious,
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yet uncontrollable man,
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who was said to have broken church laws to get his way.
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It was also at this time that Hathaknut
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succeeded the throne of England.
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who too was an unpopular figure.
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He greatly increased the tax to pay off his
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war fleet.
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In 1041,
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two tax collectors,
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Fieder and Thurston,
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were killed outside the cathedral by the citizens of Worcester.
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In retaliation,
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Harthacnut ordered to kill all the citizens and burn
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the city to the ground.
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Thanks to an advance warning,
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the citizens escaped to Beverly Island in the middle of the
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River Severn,
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which they
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fortified and used as their base.
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Worcester was however plundered for four days.
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In 1055,
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the position of Prior was left open.
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Bishop Ialdred,
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who had succeeded Lifing in 1046,
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appointed Wolfson as Prior or Provost as
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it was known at the time.
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It was an easy decision for Ialdred to make,
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as his previous roles had proved that he was worthy for the
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position.
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He started his role as Priory with enthusiasm.
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He started to reform matters within and outside the
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Priory.
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These included lands that had been lost by predecessors.
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He also enforced the Benedictine rule by telling stories
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of his childhood.
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He was dedicated to his pastoral duties.
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He would stand outside the doors of the cathedral and
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he would talk to the people of Worcester and listen to their troubles.
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He would baptise children from poor families who couldn't afford the
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financial demands of parish priests.
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People from the countryside outside of Worcester would
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flock to receive his baptismal blessing,
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and even the rich would come to him believing that he
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was the only person that could hold a true baptism.
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Walfston soon attracted the nobles of England,
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and it was probably in 1055 when Earl
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Howard Godwinson,
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who had that year gained control of Halifortshire,
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befriended Walfston,
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who in turn became Howard's spiritual advisor.
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It is written in the Vita Walfstani that he loved
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Walfston above all men.
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One of the last events to happen while Walfston
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was prior was the building of the Belfry.
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The Vita Wolfstani writes that,
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during the building,
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there were a set of precarious ladders,
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all set up to access the site.
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One workman climbed up the ladders,
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but fell a 40 -foot drop.
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Wolfston was standing by.
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He made the sign of the cross on his chest.
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The workman stood up with absolutely no injuries,
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and he blessed Wolfston,
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and he walked away.
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Whether this was a lucky escape or Wollstone's healing work,
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it showed that Wollstone was starting to create miracles
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during his lifetime.
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Bishop Ildred was elected as Archbishop
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of York in 1060.
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Pope Nicholas II refused to allow him to
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continue his control over Worcester,
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which his predecessors had done.
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Eildred returned to England from Rome with two legates sent
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by the Pope to ensure that a suitable candidate would be found for
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Worcester.
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Wolfstone's self -discipline,
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especially his fasting during Lent,
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his teachings and his strict observance of the Benedictine rule
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were admired by the legates.
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Wolfstone,
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however, at first refused to be a bishop.
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It is said that he proclaimed that he would rather have lost his head than
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to be a bishop.
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It was usual for such holy individuals to
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say they were not worthy for such a position,
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but for Wollstone it was genuine and it took
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six months to persuade him that he was right for the role.
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And at the Easter Court in 1062,
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Wollstone was made Bishop of Worcester.
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Invest
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Wollstone with the bishopric.
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He presented him with his episcopal staff and ring,
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the symbols of his temporal authority of the bishopric.
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Archbishop Aildred consecrated
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Wollstone in September the same year.
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It was York and not Canterbury that consecrated him,
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as Archbishop Stigand was known as a usurper
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and so wasn't fit to be consecrating bishops.
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Alston continued his good works during his early years as
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Bishop of Worcester.
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He was still true to the religious rule of a monk.
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He made frequent visits around the diocese and
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enforced moral reform.
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But it was at this time that there was
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growing background political instability.
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The relationship between Earl Harold Godwinson
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and Edward the Confessor had deteriorated.
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The Earl was a powerful influence in the country as he
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owned many lands in England.
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His brother Earl Tostig was causing
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trouble in the north.
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He had allied with Harold Hardrada to take on
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England.
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In 1065,
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Alston along with other participants attended the
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Christmas Court.
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and it was here that they witnessed King Edward's death.
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Harold's coronation was soon after,
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and the sixth king was made during Wolfton's life,
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but it would be the last of the Anglo -Saxon kings.
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King Harold was successful in his campaign
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against his brother Tostig and Hardrada at Stamford Bridge,
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but almost three weeks later,
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in mid -October 1066,
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Duke William of Normandy
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crossed the channel and landed with his invasion force at
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Pevensey and faced Harold at Hastings.
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Harold was killed and William was victorious
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and was crowned King of England at Christmas the same
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year.
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This battle changed the shape
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of England.
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The Anglo -Norman nation had been formed and
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it transformed the ecclesiastical life of Wollstone's
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diocese.
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William's invading army continued its devastation
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into the rest of England.
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Wollstone,
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along with other individuals,
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swore an oath of loyalty to the new king.
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But in April 1070,
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he was summoned to a council that decided who
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would keep their positions in the church.
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Many English clerics were dismissed,
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including Stigand,
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who was replaced with Lanfranc.
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Eldred died and was replaced with Thomas of Bayeux.
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Walthstone was in good standing with King William,
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and later William II,
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and he kept his bishopric,
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and he often helped the newly appointed archbishops.
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Lanfranc,
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however, at first wanted Walthstone to resign,
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but there was a legend that Walthstone pushed his staff into
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the stonework of Edward the Confessor's tomb,
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and that only he,
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the true Bishop of Worcester,
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could remove it.
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The Norman Age brought with it a change of architecture,
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and in the 1080s,
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Wollstone embarked on one of his most significant achievements of
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his life, redesigning Worcester Cathedral.
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I talked to archaeologist Chris Guy about Wollstone's
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Cathedral.
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The crypt was started in 1084.
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It was the first part of the new Norman Cathedral to be
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built, replacing two Saxon cathedrals.
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It has round arches.
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The crypt is one of the largest of its period in England
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and is a series of arcades,
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all to say with round arches,
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resting on columns with capitals,
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various different styles,
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conforming to a basic ground plan.
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The crypt was ordered by
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Bishop Wolfstone,
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who was the last Saxon bishop to be appointed.
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And it may have been a Norman architect or master
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mason who overlooked the work,
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but the work was almost certainly carried out under his control by Saxons.
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We know that the crypt
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didn't take that long to build because in 1089
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they had a synod or a meeting down here.
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So by then the crypt must have been finished and possibly the
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entire east end of the cathedral.
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The plan of the cathedral is laid out by Wollstone but the
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two west bays were rebuilt in the late 12th century
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and although they incorporate some Norman architectural styles
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like round arches and some of the decoration,
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they are moving into the next architectural style so
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the arches are becoming slightly more pointed and it's a transition
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from Norman architecture into early English.
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After they'd rebuilt the two west bays in the late 12th century,
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they started rebuilding the rest of the nave,
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working from the east end on the north side,
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working westwards,
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did the north side first,
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and then they rebuilt the south side.
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And there is a change in architectural style partway
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down the north side,
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possibly caused by the Black Death,
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but that is not a certain.
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Walfston laid the foundations of
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the cathedral we see today.
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The crypt is a lasting monument to the genius architecture
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of the Norman Age and Wolfson's design.
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Although Lot has been rebuilt or restored over the centuries,
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I think I can safely say that he will be proud of
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the cathedral here at Worcester.
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When Wulfton finished the cathedral,
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he placed a charter with his seal upon the altar as
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a gift to his monks.
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It granted them more land as the monastery had grown
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in numbers.
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Many parish churches were built
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or repaired within the diocese.
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Westerby Church,
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for example, was falling down and needed repairing.
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So Wulfton rebuilt it from the foundations upward.
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and later placed Coleman,
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Wollstone's chaplain and later biographer,
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as Prior.
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Malvern Priory and Clanes
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Church were also built by Wollstone.
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After
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the Norman Conquest,
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Wollstone continued his great pastoral work.
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He preached to a congregation that had been affected by the Norman
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Conquest and the Norman settlers.
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He also played a significant and successful role in preaching
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against the slave trade which operated out from Bristol to Ireland.
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The Norman Conquest brought change to English
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society, but Wollstone was keen to continue English values
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in a spiritual and religious sense.
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In the Cathedral Library,
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there was evidence of how manuscript writing didn't entirely change
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during Wollstone's life.
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good similarities between the Anglo -Saxon manuscripts and the Norman ones.
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Because St.
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Wollstone is still in charge,
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he allows the monks to continue in a very similar style.
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So this is a 10th century manuscript,
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for example, and we can see the decoration on the tail of the
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letter.
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And yet in this 12th century Worcester manuscript,
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again we have very similar decoration on the tail of the letter M.
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And also you can see the similarities between the size of the handwriting in the Anglo -Saxon
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book and yet in the Norman one it's almost identical.
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It is written in the Vita Wolfstani
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that Wolfstern himself said that he would live to an old age,
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and he did.
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In his last days he knew that his time was coming,
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and he believed that Christ was making him ready for his departure.
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He continued to pray and say psalms,
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and he was known to calmly sit in the chapel and watch
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the workmen build his cathedral.
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He received the Eucharist daily to prepare for
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his journey to heaven.
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The Vita Wolf Starni writes,
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He breathed forth his last breath,
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a little after midnight on Saturday the 19th of January.
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in the year of the Incarnation of our Lord,
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1095,
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the eighth year of the reign of William II,
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when he had been bishop for 34 years,
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four months and 13 days,
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and in about the 87th year of his age.
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Austen
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was buried alongside the shrine of St.
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Oswald near the high altar.
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Soon afterwards,
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he appeared in the dreams of sleeping monks.
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telling them to continue their good work.
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The shrine miraculously survived fires,
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which destroyed some parts of the cathedral.
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But at the Reformation,
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the shrines were destroyed and the bodies of the two saints
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were wrapped in lead and reburied north of the high altar.
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Their last resting place is yet to be discovered.
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Nearly 200 years later,
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Pope Innocent III made Wollstone a saint.
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King John,
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who often visited Worcester and his shrine,
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wanted the saint to be his spiritual patron.
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King John also used the history of Wollstone during
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his dispute with the Pope,
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claiming that it was the king's right to appoint bishops,
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as it was the right for Edward the Confessor to appoint Wollstone.
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In 1216,
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when King John died,
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he wanted to be buried between the shrines of Oswald and Wollstone.
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John's tomb depicts an effigy of Walfston.
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And now,
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over a thousand years later,
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Walfston is still remembered and celebrated to this
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day.
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There is a church in Worcester in Warndon,
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one of the estates in the northeast of the city,
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and it was felt that there was a need for a church there sometime in the early
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1960s when people started celebrating the Eucharist around somebody's
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kitchen table.
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And on the 19th of January 1963,
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the church was dedicated on the feast of St.
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Walthstone, and it's known as St.
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Walthstone's Church in Warndon.
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In 2008 we celebrated a thousand years since
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Wolfstone's birth.
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I wasn't a residential canon here in Worcester at the time but I remember being
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a vicar in the north of the diocese and people from across the diocese
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came to celebrate St.
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Wolfstone.
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There were processions through the streets of Worcester telling the story
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of his life and people then met in the cathedral for a great celebration.
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Because St.
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Wolfstone is a local saint and he's also a saint of
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the pre -Reformation period,
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this gives us a great opportunity as a cathedral to welcome our
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brothers and sisters from different Christian denominations and prayers
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have been said in this cathedral on St.
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Wolfstone's Day by the Bishop of Worcester along with the Roman Catholic
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Archbishop of Birmingham.

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