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About St. Swithun
c. 800 – 862 · Feast July 15 · Bishop
Anglo-Saxon bishop (c. 800-862), Bishop of Winchester from 852; counselor of King Egbert and tutor of Ethelwulf, father of Alfred the Great. The English weather-lore of "St. Swithun's Day, if it does rain, full forty days it will remain" derives from a tradition that storms attended the translation of his relics on July 15, 971. Pre-Congregation.
St. Swithun is the patron saint of Weather, Drought Relief and Winchester.
