Editing Frithuswith (section)

==The priory==
{{Main|Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford}}
St Frideswide's Priory, a medieval [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] house (some of the buildings of which were incorporated into [[Christ Church, Oxford]] following the [[dissolution of the monasteries]]) is claimed to be the site of her abbey and [[relic]]s. From early times the abbey appears to have been an important landowner in the area; however, it was destroyed in 1002 during the events of the [[St. Brice's Day massacre]].<ref name="Blair1988" /> A shrine was kept at the abbey in Frithuswith's honour; later a monastery was built there for [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] [[Canon_(priest)|canons]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mayr-Harting |first=Henry |title=Studies in medieval history presented to R. H. C. Davis |date=1985 |publisher=Hambledon Press |isbn=978-0-907628-68-2 |editor1-last=Mayr-Harting |editor1-first=Henry |editor2-last=Moore |editor2-first=R. I. |location=London |pages=193–206 |chapter=Functions of a twelfth-century shrine: the miracles of St Frideswide |doi=10.5040/9781472599131.ch-014}}</ref>

In 1180, the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] [[Richard of Dover]] translated Frithuswith's remains to a new shrine in the monastery church, an event that was attended by King [[Henry II of England]].  The later history of the monastery was chequered, but it remained sufficiently prominent that [[Catherine of Aragon]] visited the shrine during her final pregnancy.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Highfield |first=J. R. L. |date=1988 |title=Catherine of Aragon's visit to the shrine of St. Frideswide |url=https://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1988/stfrideswidenotes.pdf |journal=Oxoniensia |volume=53 |pages=274–275}}</ref>

The priory seal, designed in the late 1180s, depicts Frideswide with a [[lily]] and a set of [[wax tablets]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Heslop |first=T.A. |date=1988 |title=The late 12th-century seal of St. Frideswide's priory |url=https://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1988/stfrideswidenotes.pdf |journal=Oxoniensia |volume=53 |pages=271–274}}</ref>

[[Henry Chichele]], the archbishop of Canterbury, officially declared Frideswide the patron saint of Oxford and the [[University of Oxford]] in 1440. Her [[feast day]] is 19 October, the traditional day of her death; the date of her translation is commemorated on 12 February; and the invention (discovery) of her relics on 15 May.<ref name="Blair1987" />

The shrine was repeatedly vandalized during the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] and beyond.  In 1546 the monastery church became (and still remains) the cathedral church for the [[diocese of Oxford]].  Her shrine was reinstated by [[Mary I of England|Queen Mary]] in 1558, but was later desecrated by [[James Calfhill]], a [[Calvinist]] canon of the church, who was intent on suppressing her cult.  As a result, Frithuswith's remains were mixed with those of [[Catherine Dammartin]], wife of [[Peter Martyr Vermigli]], and they remain so to this day.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kesselring |first=K. J. |date=20 July 2021 |title=The Case of Catherine Dammartin: Friends, Fellows, and the Survival of Celibacy in England's Protestant Universities |journal=Renaissance and Reformation |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=87–108 |doi=10.33137/rr.v44i1.37043|s2cid=238798382 |url=http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1081140ar }}</ref>