{"id":19529,"date":"2017-11-16T22:47:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T21:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19529"},"modified":"2017-11-16T22:47:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T21:47:41","slug":"16th-november-%c3%a6lfric-of-abingdon-d-1005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19529","title":{"rendered":"16th November &#8211; \u00c6lfric of Abingdon &#8211; d.1005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u00c6lfric of Abingdon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17111602.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNovember 16th is Saint \u00c6lfric&#8217;s Feast Day. \u00c6lfric, a monk from Abingdon, went on to become Abbot of St Albans, and then Archbishop of Canterbury.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u00c6lfric of Abingdon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17111601.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nQuite by chance, during a lunchtime walk, I found the parish church of St Mary&#8217;s, in the parish of Cardington, was open and so had a few minutes to look round inside. One notable feature is a chapel dedicated to Samuel Whitbread, the brewer and his family, who was born in Cardington. <\/p>\n<p>I also noticed a book of saints and pilgrims &#8211; open at 14th-15th November, and so turned the page to 16th-17th and saw \u00c6lfric of Abingdon &#8211; d.1005. \u00c6lfric became well known far beyond Abingdon. I was suprised to see Abingdon mentioned in such a far away church. He died on this day in 1005.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally it is also the Feast Day of St Edmund of Abingdon who died on 16th November 1240, at Soisy-Bouy in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 16th is Saint \u00c6lfric&#8217;s Feast Day. \u00c6lfric, a monk from Abingdon, went on to become Abbot of St Albans, and then Archbishop of Canterbury. Quite by chance, during a lunchtime walk, I found the parish church of St Mary&#8217;s, in the parish of Cardington, was open and so had a few minutes to look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}