Talk:List of the bishops of the Diocese of Lichfield and its precursor offices

Saint Sexwulf
Many years ago, I theorised that there might once have been a Vita Sancti Saxwulfi - now I spot "Saint Sexwulf" on this page! Can someone tell me (hopefully in some detail) what that's based on? I'd be fascinated - and it ought to be mentioned at Sexwulf! Nortonius (talk) 16:06, 17 May 2008 (UTC)


 * No clue. It was there, I believe, when I started on this project of the bishops... Ealdgyth - Talk 16:13, 17 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, thanks for that! Nortonius (talk) 16:24, 17 May 2008 (UTC)


 * None of my three books listing saints give him as a saint. Collins, Walsh, and Delaney. Nor does my edition of Butler. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:30, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Better still, thanks! I lately had an email conversation with someone at the Dictionary of National Biography, in which we agreed that I probably hadn't missed any sources for Sexwulf - but of course it ain't necessarily so! It could be especially intriguing if someone with a Lichfield connection can point to something about him! It's just that it struck me that no-one would call him "Saint Sexwulf" without good reason - maybe there's just a ?Victorian statue of him on the West Front of the cathedral, with "Saint Sexwulf" as its inscription, but I'd have thought even the Victorians would have got that idea from somewhere, however 'inventive' they or it might have been. Hey ho, I'll keep waiting then, thanks again! Nortonius (talk) 16:40, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

(undid indent) About the internal link for Saint Sexwulf: please note that, should this link ever be activated, I suppose it ought to point to the existing page for Sexwulf! I'd do it now, but this is the only mention I've ever seen of Sexwulf's canonisation...! Nortonius (talk) 10:30, 19 May 2008 (UTC)