Swithun

Sveti Swithun
Biskup
Rođen/a	cca. 800, vjerojatno Hampshire
Umro/la	2. 7. 862., Winchester, Hampshire
Štuje se u	Pravoslavna crkva; Rimokatolička crkva; Anglikanska zajednica
Glavno svetište	Winchesterska katedrala
Kalendar svetaca	15. jul
Atributi	biskup nosi most, slomljena jaja pred njegovim stopalima
Zaštitništvo	Hampshire; Winchester; Southwark; vrijeme

Swithun (ili Swithin, staroengleski: Swīþhūn; ? - cca. 862) bio je anglosakonski biskup Winchestera kasnije proglašen za sveca-zaštitnika Winchesterske katedrale. Na mjestu biskupa je bio od 852. do 862. godine, a njegova historijska uloga je zasjenjena posthumnog reputacijom čudotvorca. Prema tradiciji, vrijeme na njegov blagdan (15. jul) se nastavlja četrdeset dana.

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Literatura

Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961.
Andrew Godsell "Saint Swithin and the Rain" in "Legends of British History" (2008).
Lapidge, Michael. Cult of St Swithun (Oxford, 2003) (Winchester Studies, 4.ii).
Yorke, Barbara. "Swithun [St Swithun] (d. 863)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Deshman, Robert, "Saint Swithun in Early Medieval Art," in Idem, Eye and Mind: Collected Essays in Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Art Edited by Adam Cohen (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2010) (Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center).

Eksterni linkovi

"St. Swithin or Swithun, Bishop and Patron of Winchester, Confessor", Butler's Lives of the Saints
Catholic Encyclopedia entry on St. Swithin
Guardian netnotes on St. Swithin's Day
Wilson's Almanac Arhivirano 2011-10-10 na Wayback Machine-u
Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England entry for Swithun^{[mrtav link]}
BBC "Landward" feature on St. Swithin's Day