ly were allowed milk
and eggs in time of sickness. Lupicinus, for his own part, used no other
bed than a chair or a hard board; never touched wine, and would scarce
ever suffer a drop either of oil or milk to be poured on his pulse. In
summer his subsistence for many years was only hard bread moistened in
cold water, so that he could eat it with a spoon. His tunic was made of
various skins of beasts sewn together, with a cowl: he used wooden
shoes, and wore no stockings unless when he was obliged to go out of the
monastery. St. Romanus died about the year 460, and is mentioned in the
Roman Martyrology on the 28th of February. St. Lupicinus survived him
almost twenty years, and is honored in the Roman Martyrology on the 21st
of March. He was succeeded in the abbacy of Condate by Minaucius, who,
in 480, chose St. Eugendus his coadjutor. See the lives of the two
brothers, SS. Romanus and Lupicinus, and that of St. Eugendus or Oyend,
compile a by a monk of Condate of the same age; St. Gregory of Tours,
{in} {485} de Vitis Patr. c. 1. Mabill. Annal. Ben. l. 1, ad an. 510, t.
1, p. 23. Tillemont, t. 16, p. 142. Bulteau, l. 1.

FEBRUARY XXIX.

ST. OSWALD,

BISHOP OF WORCESTER AND ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.

From his life written by Eadmer; also from Florence of Worcester,
William of Malmesbury, and, above all, the elegant and accurate author
of the history of Ramsey, published by the learned Mr. Gale, p. 385. The
life of this saint, written by Fulcard, abbot of Thorney, in 1068,
Wharton thinks not extant. Mabillon doubts whether it is not that which
we have in Capgrave and Surius. See also Portiforium 8. Oswaldi Archiep.
Eborac. Codex MS. crassus in 8vo. exarates circa annum 1064, in Bennet
College, Cambridge, mentioned by Waneley, Catal. p. 110.

A.D. 992.

ST. OSWALD was nephew to St. Odo, archbishop of Canterbury, and to
Oskitell, bishop first of Dorcester, afterwards of York. He was educated
by St. Odo, and made dean of Winchester; but passing into France, took
the monastic habit at Fleury. Being recalled to serve the church, he
succeeded St. Dunstan in the see of Worcester about the year 959. He
shone as a bright star in this dignity, and established a monastery of
monks at Westberry, a village in his diocese. He was employed by duke
Aylwin in superintending his foundation of the great monastery of
Ramsey, in an island formed by marshes and the river Ouse in
Huntingdonshire, in 972. St. Oswald was made archbishop of Yor