Christian feast day: Thomas de Cantilupe (or of Hereford)

Thomas de Cantilupe

13th-century Bishop of Hereford and saint

Thomas de Cantilupe was Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Hereford. He was canonised in 1320 by Pope John XXII. He has been noted as "an inveterate enemy of the Jews", and his demands that they be expelled from England were cited in the evidence presented for his…