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The Cathedral was named for St. Svithun or Swithun, an English bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862 who was the patron saint of Winchester Cathedral from 10th to the 16th centrury.
When St. Swithun died on July 2, 862, he was buried in a common grave outside of Old Winchester Cathedral as he had requested. His body lay there for about a century.
He was moved from his grave to an indoor shrine in the Old Minster at Winchester in 971. When Swithun's remains were transferred to the cathedral, many people claimed miraculous cures. The common folk regarded this as proof he had indeed been a saint. A typical medieval cult grew up around him and his tomb became one of the most popular pilgrimage sites in England.
Pieces of his body were borrowed for other shrines, his head going to Canterbury and an arm to Peterborough Abbey and his other arm going to the Stavanger Cathedral in Norway. After the Reformation in 1537 the Stavanger Cathedral became Lutheran by a law laid down by King Christian III of Denmark. All relics from St. Swithun were removed and sent to Denmark.
As for the part of the body that still remained in Winchester, England - in 1538, English reformers destroyed Swithun's shrine and scattered its relics. It was now considered idolatry to bow and pray at such shrines.
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