Around 1320 John Twenge was born in the village of Thwing on the Yorkshire Wolds, about nine miles west of Bridlington.
In 1356 John Twenge [aged 36] was elected Prior of Bridlington which office he held until his death seventeen years later in 1379.
On 10th October 1379 John Twenge [aged 59] died.
On 24th September 1401 John Twenge was canonised by Pope Boniface IX. His feast day is the 21st October.
On 11th March 1404 or 5th May 1404 the remains of John Twenge were translated to a shrine at Bridlington Priory [Map].
Annals of Kings Richard II and Henry IV. In the same year, on the fifth day of May [1404], after innumerable miracles had already been revealed, wonders for the whole world to admire, the bishops assembled, at the command of the Pope, at the town and priory [Map] of the canons of Bridlington, in the County of [Yorkshire]. The Archbishop of York, the Bishops of Durham and Carlisle, or Lugubalia, and an almost countless multitude of people gathered there to attend the translation of Lord John1, formerly Prior of Bridlington. The venerable body of that most holy man was therefore translated by the ministry of the bishops and placed in a shrine [at Bridlington Priory [Map]], while the Lord renewed the miracles of His saint on that very day, to the saint’s glory. His most holy life and perfect manner of conduct deserve a separate account.
Eodem anno, quinto dus mensis Maii, post innumera præostensa miracula, toti sæculo admiranda, mandato Domini Papæ convenere Præsules ad villam, Prioratumque Canonicorum de Bridelington, in Comitatu [....], Eboracensis Archiepiscopus, et Dunelmensis ac Carleolensis, sive Lugubaliensis, Antistites, et velut infinitus populus, ut Translationi Domini Johannis, quondam Prioris de Bridelingtone, interessent. Translatum est igitur venerabile corpus illius viri sanctissimi, Episcoporum ministerio, et in scrinio collocatum, Domino renovante miracula ipso die ad gloriam Sancti sui. Cujus vita sanctissima, conversatioque perfecta, tractatum exigunt specialem.
Note 1. John Twenge, 1320-1379, elected Prior of Bridlington in 1356 and held the office for life. His magnificent shrine was destroyed in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
In 1537 the shrine of John Twenge at Bridlington Priory [Map] was destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.