ST. SWITHIN'S DAY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 142, 30 July 1872, Page 5

ST. SWITHIN'S DAY.

i An antiquarian correspondent has sent us ! die legend of St. S within, which will doubtless be read with interest by those hitherto un icqu tinted vvi hj it “The 1 aim of this month was the lOfOth ; anniversary of the 1 sacrilig'.ous ’ attempt of 1 the monks of Winchester to interfere with the exp-ess desire of S-vithin—then Irshon—- ' that Ids remains should lie in the open i churchyard. The inonss, as tue old story rims, thought it was not nroper that the.r I late bisaop, who had just been canonized, siioald lie in the open e.mrohyar l, and re- ; solved, to remove his body, witii solemn proI cession, within the church. Tlie loth of July , was tiie date fixed for the ceremony, but the I rain fe'l so violent}* on that day, and fop j forty days follo wing, that the monks we e jumble to carry out tlr*T pious design : and 1 perceiving in the tempest a sign from Heaven I forbidding them to interfere with toe saint's I rest, they let his bodv lie where it had been | buried, and erected a chapel o rev the remains, ! whereat many miracles were ..aid to hare been ' sai) wpionlly wrought."