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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough

Our Lady

Our patrons

Our Lady of Perpetual Succour

Our Lady of Perpetual Succour was adopted as our Diocesan patroness by Bishop Lacy who had seen the miraculous image of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Rome whilst he was a seminarian.

The miraculous image is kept in the Church of St. Alponsus Ligouri in Rome.

The feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour is on 27th June.

St Wilfrid

St. Wilfrid, who was Bishop of York from 664 until his death in 709, was the successful advocate for the Roman viewpoint at the Synod of Whitby, the Anglo-Saxon Church Council which decided the method for determining the date of Easter.

The feast of St. Wilfrid is on 12th October.

St. John of Beverley

St. John of Beverley studied at Canterbury under Saints Adrian and Theodore before becoming a monk at Whitby. In 687 he became Bishop of Hexham and then, in 705, Metropolitan of York. We know much about St. John of Beverley because it was he who ordained the first English historian, the Venerable Bede who wrote of him, and recorded miracles worked by him. St. John founded the Beverley Abbey to which he retired in 717. He died in 721.

St. John's tomb became a focus for pilgrimages in medieval times and King Henry V's victory at Agincourt was attributed to the aid of Saint John and Saint John of Bridlington.

The feast of St. John of Beverley is on 12th October.