Editing Swithun (section)

==Veneration==
[[File:wincath1-11S7-9724wiki.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|St Swithun's memorial shrine in the [[Retroquire|retrochoir]] of [[Winchester Cathedral]] in [[Hampshire]], where the saint's relics were originally kept.]]
Swithun's [[feast day]] in England is on 15 July and in Norway (and formerly in medieval Wales) on 2 July. He is also listed on 2 July in the [[Roman Martyrology]]. He was moved from his grave to an indoor [[shrine]] in the [[Old Minster, Winchester|Old Minster]] at [[Winchester]] in 971. His body was probably later split between a number of smaller shrines. His head was certainly detached and, in the [[Middle Ages]], taken to [[Canterbury Cathedral]]. [[Peterborough Cathedral|Peterborough Abbey]] had an arm.<ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/210/7/153.html Butler, Alban. ''The Lives of the Saints'', Vol. VII, 1866]</ref> His main shrine was transferred into the new [[Norman architecture|Norman]] cathedral at [[Winchester]] in 1093. He was installed on a 'feretory platform' above and behind the high altar. The [[retrochoir]] was built in the early 13th century to accommodate the huge numbers of pilgrims wishing to visit his shrine and enter the 'holy hole' beneath him. His empty [[tomb]] in the ruins of the Old Minster was also popular with visitors. The shrine was only moved into the retrochoir itself in 1476. It was [[demolition|demolished]] in 1538 during the [[English Reformation]]. A modern representation of it now stands on the site.

The shrine of Swithun at Winchester was supposedly a site of numerous miracles in the Middle Ages. [[Æthelwold of Winchester]] ordered that all monks were to stop whatever they were doing and head to the church to praise God every time that a miracle happened. A story exists that the monks at some point got so fed up with this, because they sometimes had to wake up and go to the church three or four times each night, that they decided to stop going. St. Swithun then appeared in a dream to someone (possibly two people) and warned them that if they stopped going to the church, then miracles would cease. This person (or persons) then warned the monks about the dream they had, and the monks then caved in and decided to go to the church each time a miracle happened again.<ref>Studies in the Early History of Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset County Council, 1999</ref>

Swithun is [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|remembered]] in the [[Church of England]] with a [[Lesser Festival (Anglicanism)|Lesser Festival]] on [[July 15|15 July]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Calendar|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar|access-date=2021-03-27|website=The Church of England|language=en}}</ref>