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Walstan
Saint Walstan (or Walston) (died 1016) was born either in Bawburgh in Norfolk, or Blythburgh in Suffolk, and because of his life dedicated to farming and the care of farm animals, is the patron saint of farms, farmers, farmhands, ranchers and husbandrymen.
==Life==
According to Butler, Walstan was born in Bamburgh to a wealthy family. His father's name was Benedict; that of his mother, Blida.〔(Butler, Alban. ''Lives of the Saints'', Vol. V, 1866 )〕 His mother, Blitha of Martham, was a kinswoman of King Ethelred and his son Edmund Ironside.;〔("St. Walston of Bawburgh", ''Orthodox England'', Volume 4 Issue 4 Date 1 June 2001 )〕 she was herself considered a Saint.〔Blair, John (2002), "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints", in Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard, Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p515〕 An anonymous ''Lambeth Life'' in Lambeth Palace library gives his birthplace as "Blyborow town" or Blythburgh.〔("The 'Lambeth Life', St. Walston, and 'Blyborow Town'", Blythburgh.net )〕
At the age of seven Walstan received instruction from Bishop Theodred of Elmham with the assistance of Fr Ælred, the parish priest of Bawburgh.〔 When he was only twelve he left his parents' home and travelled to Taverham in Norfolk where he worked as a farm labourer. Walstan soon gained a reputation for hard work and piety and also developed an affinity with the poor and was charitable in the extreme, giving both his food and clothing to those less fortunate than himself.〔 It is said that Walstan was so charitable that he gave sometimes even his shoes, going himself barefoot. He applied himself to the meanest and most painful labour in a perfect spirit of penance and humility; fasted much, and spent time in fervent prayer. He made a vow of celibacy, but never embraced a monastic state.〔
He died on 30 May 1016 at work in a meadow,〔 after seeing a vision of an angel while at work scything a hay crop. His body was laid on a cart pulled by two white oxen as he had instructed and the cortege ended up at Bawburgh, where he was buried. At the three points along the journey that the oxen stopped, a spring arose (though only the well at Bawburgh can now be found).
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