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December 2 · Bishop

St. Trumwin of the Picts

St. Trumwin of the Picts

Traditional feast

December 2
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Bishop

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on December 2 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: The Scottish Menology of Dempster. Authority: — Mention by Trumwin, a monk of Whitby, was ordained bishop in 681, and sent among the Piets, who were then subject to the Angles. After the battle of Nectanesmere, in which Ecgfrid, king of Northumbria, who had invaded their province, was defeated and slain, the Piets recovered their territory, and Trumwin retired from the monastery of Abercom, where he had resided, to Whitby, along with a few companions. He died there, and was buried in S. Peter’s Church. He was one of the religious who accompanied King Ecgfrid to Lindisfame to persuade S. Cuthbert to accept the episcopate.

Feast days

Feast: December 2

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.