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St. Swithin: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Saint Swithun • St. Swithun
Born c.800
Died July 2, 862

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Stone statue of Saint Swithun holding a bishop's staff, set in an ornate niche on the exterior wall of the Cathedral of Saint Swithun in Stavanger, Norway.
Winchester Cathedral
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Suger, detail of a stained glass window, 12th century; in the abbey church of Saint-Denis, Fr.
Suger
French abbot
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Nicholas Oresme
French bishop, scholar, and economist
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Hincmar of Reims
French theologian
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Saint Dunstan of Canterbury
English archbishop
John Leslie, detail of an engraving
John Leslie
Scottish bishop
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Pedro González, cardinal de Mendoza
Spanish cardinal
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Lanfranc
archbishop of Canterbury
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Matthäus Lang
German statesman and cardinal
György Martinuzzi
György Martinuzzi
Hungarian cardinal
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Wulfstan
English archbishop
Jean du Bellay, engraving by an unknown French artist, 16th century
Jean du Bellay
French cardinal and diplomat
Absalon
Absalon
Danish archbishop
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Hatto I
archbishop of Mainz
Duprat, detail from a lithograph, 1527
Antoine Duprat
French chancellor and cardinal
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Roger of Pont l’Évêque
English archbishop
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Robert of Jumièges
archbishop of Canterbury and bishop of London
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Sir Francis Englefield
advisor to Mary I
Anno, Saint
Saint Anno
archbishop of Cologne
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Saint Cunibert
bishop of Cologne
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Ealdred
Anglo-Saxon archbishop

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