Editing Swithun (section)

==Biography==
St. Swithun was [[Bishop of Winchester]] from his consecration on 30 October 852 until his death on 2 July 863.<ref>Keynes, "Archbishops and Bishops", p. 549</ref> However, he is scarcely mentioned in any document of his own time. His death is entered in the Canterbury manuscript of the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'' (MS F) under the year 861.<ref>''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'' (MS F).</ref> He is recorded as a  witness to nine charters, the earliest of which (S 308) is dated 854.<ref>Lapidge, ''Cult of St Swithun'', p. 4</ref>

More than a hundred years later, when [[Dunstan]] and [[Æthelwold of Winchester]] were inaugurating their church reform, Swithun was adopted as patron of the restored church at Winchester, formerly dedicated to [[St. Peter]] and [[Paul of Tarsus|St. Paul]]. His body was transferred from its almost forgotten grave to Æthelwold's new basilica on 15 July 971; according to contemporary writers, numerous miracles preceded and followed the move.