On this day last year I posted about Bl. Agnellus of Pisa, whose diocesan feast day it is, and thought I would link to that post which gives a biography of the founder of the medieval Franciscan house in Oxford.
He died there on May 7 1236, and some years afterwards his body was exhumed and found to be incorrupt, and yielding a supply of fragrant oil. The incorrupt body was preserved with great veneration until the dissolution of the house in the sixteenth century. Indeed it may well still be there on an as yet unexcavated part of the friary site.
His cultus was confirmed by Pope Leo XIII in 1882, and his feast is kept by the Order on May 7.
Bl. Agnellus of Pisa
Modern glass in Greyfriars Church,
Oxford
Image: Lawrence Lew OP on Flickr
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