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- For the Northumbrian king and saint, see Oswald of Northumbria.
Saint Oswald (d. 992) was a Christian saint in Anglo-Saxon England who was archbishop of York.
Oswald was of Danish stock, and he studied in the home of his uncle, Odo, Archbishop of Canterbury. He later became a Benedictine monk in Fleury. He returned to England in 959, and Saint Dunstan made him bishop of Worcester in 962. With Dunstan and Saint Ethelwold Oswald worked to revive religious learning in the northern midlands and to correct abuses in practice. They brought in scholars from the continent to instruct local abbots. Oswald founded monasteries at Westbury, Worcester, Winchcombe, and the Isle of Ramsey. He became archbishop of York in 972. However, he remained in Worcester to continue to oversee monastic reforms. The monasteries Oswald formed were threatened by Elfhere, the earl of Mercia, who disrupted several of the houses, though not Ramsey. Upon his death, he was first buried at Lindsey in what became Viking Northumbria. But in an exploratory five-week attack on Lindsey in Northumbria in 909 by the Mercian king, Oswald's remains were captured and taken away for reburial at Gloucester. They were later buried in the church of St. Mary at Worcester.
His feast day is February 28.
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