tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post2473889309437591323..comments2024-03-29T14:32:13.886+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Canonisation?!?!Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-25580665543805153602022-10-24T12:06:27.387+01:002022-10-24T12:06:27.387+01:00The earliest depiction of King Alfred as a saint a...The earliest depiction of King Alfred as a saint appears to be on the late-12th-century head reliquary of St. Oswald at Hildesheim, where 'Sanctus Elfredus' is one of the royal saints on the base.<br /><br />In the neo-Romanesque church of Notre-Dame et Saint-Remacle at Spa in Belgium is a stained-glass window of 1889 portraying Alfred, depicted as a haloed Anglo-Saxon warrior, as the Nicholas Rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11537452538317922675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-86684416019444833272022-10-23T09:38:17.313+01:002022-10-23T09:38:17.313+01:00I see that Old Mother Damnable provides the follow...I see that Old Mother Damnable provides the following among her Lesser Festivals:<br /><br /><i>26 October<br />Alfred the Great<br />King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899<br />White<br /><br />Collect</i><br />God, our maker and redeemer,<br />we pray you of your great mercy<br />and by the power of your holy cross<br />to guide us by your will and to shield us from our foes:<br />that, after Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.com