Before the Norman Conquests
Princess Emma of
Normandy
Became Queen Emma of
England
Wife to King Æthelred
the Unready
And then to Canute the
Great of Denmark
She was falsely
accused of adultery
But the night before
her ordeal by fire
As she slept in Wargrave
uneasily
Saint Swithun appeared
in a dream
To tell her she would
be set free
An old lady's eggs had been smashed
On the new stone
bridge by workmen
Swithin picked the
broken eggs up and
They miraculously
became whole again
Anglo-Saxon St Swithun
Was Bishop of
Winchester
From his consecration
Until his death.
A century later
Dunstan and Æthelwold
Adopted him as patron
Of the restored church
Of Winchester
His body was
transferred
From almost complete
obscurity
To Æthelwold's new
basilica
After which his
posthumous miracles occurred
The Winchester
egg-woman
And Queen Emma's
ordeal
Feast Day 15th July
Anglo-Saxon St Swithun
Was Bishop of
Winchester
From his consecration
Until his death.
A century later
Dunstan and Æthelwold
Adopted him as patron
Of the restored church
Of Winchester
His body was
transferred
From almost complete obscurity
To Æthelwold's new
basilica
After which his
posthumous miracles occurred
The Winchester
egg-woman
And Queen Emma's ordeal
Feast Day 15th
July
Before the Norman Conquests
Princess Emma of
Normandy
Became Queen Emma of
England
Wife to King Æthelred
the Unready
And then to Canute the
Great of Denmark
She was falsely accused
of adultery
But the night before
her ordeal by fire
As she slept in
Wargrave uneasily
Saint Swithun appeared
in a dream
To tell her she would
be set free
