Today is the feast of St William of York. William Fitzherbert who died in 1154 had a somewhat chequered career trying to hold on to the S...

Today is the 1680th anniversary of the death of the Emperor Constantine the Great at Nicomedia in 337. Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constant...

Today is the Feast of the Translation of St Thomas Becket, commemorating the removal of his relics into the new shrine in the cathedral a...

June 8th is feast of St William of York, who died in 1154, and Gordon Plumb has posted the following piece, which I have slightly adapted,...

Today is traditionally the feast of St John before the Latin Gate. Gordon Plumb has posted these stained glass depictions of the non-marty...

Rev Gordon Plumb has posted the following selection of medieval English stained glass depictions of St George from his collection of photo...

Nothing so encapsulates English iconoclasm in the Reformation period and in subsequent centuries than the attack on the cult, on the ven...

Today is the feast day of St Paulinus, the founder of the see of York in 627 and subsequently Bishop of Rochester, who died on this day in...

Today is the feast day of St Thomas of Canterbury, the anniversary of his murder in his cathedral in 1170. Last year I posted about some ...

Today is the 1325th anniversary of the death of St Cuthbert in 687, and his traditional feast day. The modern calendar commemeorates him on ...

Today is the commemoration of one of the great figures of the tenth century English church, St Oswald, Benedictine monk, Bishop of Worceste...