Christian feast day: Wilfrid of Ripon

Wilfrid

Christian saint, Bishop of York from 664 to 678

Wilfrid was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Francia, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon. In…