‘Holy Chad, the Herald of Spring’

Holy Chad, well you learned

The Apostles’ ways

From Aidan Saint.

A life of quiet you sought,

But spread the Gospel tidings

At Theodore’s behest.

Your bare feet hallowed

Middle England as you walked

From town to town to teach.

Lightning and thunder,

Wind and rain to you were

Words of God to heed.

Angelic hosts your final days

On earth announced.  And with St Cedd

They welcomed you to Heaven.

Blessed Bishop, wealth of virtues,

Your relics heal the sick.

Help us who cry now to you with faith:

Holy Chad of Lichfield,

Deliver from the Foe all Dixie-folk,

O man dear to God, by your prayers!

St Chad, who went to his rest in the Lord on 2 March 672 A.D.  Ikon from http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/101836.htm, 21 March 2017.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð!

Anathema to the Union!