John Of Beverley, Saint

John Of Beverley, Saint

▪ English bishop
born , Harpham, Yorkshire, Northumbria
died May 7, 721, Beverley, Yorkshire

      bishop of York, one of the most popular medieval English saints.

      After studies at St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury, Kent, under the celebrated abbot St. Adrian, John entered Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire. In 687 he succeeded St. Eata as bishop of Hexham, Northumberland, and in 705 was consecrated bishop of York. He founded a monastery at Inderawood, later called Beverley, where he retired after resigning his bishopric between 717 and 720 to St. Wilfrid the Younger.

      King Henry V of England ascribed to John the victory of his troops over the French at Agincourt, Fr., on Oct. 25, 1415—the anniversary of the translation of John's remains to York (1037) from Beverley, where his shrine was a popular pilgrimage during the Middle Ages. In 1416 Henry ordered John's feast day, May 7, to be kept throughout England. Accounts of John's miracles are in the Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Bede.

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