Feast December 4
Saint Osmund
Bishop, patron of insanity · Feast December 4
Biography
Osmund, Count of Sées, was a Norman noble and clergyman. Following the Norman conquest of England, he served as Lord Chancellor and as the second bishop of Salisbury, or Old Sarum.
Feast day
December 4
Patronage
- insanity
- mental illness
- mentally ill people
- paralysed people
- paralysis
- ruptures
- toothache
Death date
3 or 4 December 1099
Canonization status
Canonized
Canonization date
1 January 1457
Canonized by
Callixtus III
Feast month
12
Wikidata qid
Q652157
Feast day of month
4