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Osanna

northumbrian princess and saint

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Feast: 18 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born

800

Died

800

Beatified

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not needed: before formal processes

Canonised

By tradition

recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Osana was a Northumbrian princess, whose local following as a saint developed informally after her death, though she was never officially canonised. Centuries after her death, she was described by the Norman-Welsh chronicler Giraldus Cambrensis (died 1223) as the sister of King Osred I of Northumbria, which would make her the daughter of King Aldfrith of Northumbria. Osana was depicted by Giraldus as inflicting a miraculous flagellation from her grave in Howden, Yorkshire, upon a concubine of the priest of the collegiate church there, a moral tale intended to inculcate clerical celibacy.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources

Wikidata Q2032549 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
English Wikipedia — Osana (CC BY-SA)

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