St. Brithwald's Feastday

I find that January 22 is the feastday of St. Brithwald.

Benedictine bishop and a benefactor of Glastonbury Abbey in England. Brithwald was a monk at Glastonbury when he was named bishop of Ramsbury in 1005. He eventually moved his see to Old Sarum. Both Glastonbury and Malmesbury abbeys were under his patronage. Brithwald had visions and was a true prophet.
(Catholic Online, Saints & Angels)

Glastonbury draws me strongly for its connections with the legend of King Arthur, which has fascinated me since junior high when my father gave me The Once and Future King—still a favorite. King Arthur and Queen Guinevere are said to be buried beneath the high altar at the Abbey, their graves discovered in the Twelfth Century.

According to two accounts by the chronicler, Giraldus Cambrensis, the abbot, Henry de Sully, commissioned a search, discovering at the depth of 16 feet (5 m) a massive hollowed oak trunk containing two skeletons. Above it, under the covering stone, according to Giraldus, was a leaden cross with the unmistakably specific inscription Hic jacet sepultus inclitus rex Arthurus in insula Avalonia ("Here lies interred the famous King Arthur on the Isle of Avalon").
—Wikipedia

For further on Medieval abbeys, here's a good site: Abbeys and Monasteries in England

image: Glastonbury Abbey, Mark Robinson, Williton, UK