Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Queen and first Abbess of Wimborne. Died c. 725.St. Cuthburga was the daughter of Prince Coenred, a second-cousin of Caedwalla, King of Wessex. Her brothers were St. Ine, King of Wessex and Ingild, great-great-grandfather of Egbert, the first King of…
Today the Christian world celebrates the Feast of St. Andrew the First Called of the Apostles. This is an interesting feast day for me since it brings two parts of my life together. St. Andrew is, of course, the patron…
A Saxon princess who founded a nunnery on the coast near Folkestone, Kent. She was grand-daughter of King Saint Aethelbert. She is also known as Eanswida, Eanswide, Eanswith. She died August 31, c. 640… The monastery she founded was destroyed…
Many legends but few facts are recorded about Kentigern (d. c. 603/612), who with his mother Thenew is a patron of Glasgow. Thenew was a princess whose father set her adrift in a coracle when he learned that she was…
Bishop of Lindisfarne, patron of Durham, born about 635; died 20 March, 687. His emblem is the head of St. Oswald, king and martyr, which he is represented as bearing in his hands. His feast is kept in Great Britain…
Patron of Ireland “Saint Patrick, the Apostle of the Irish, was seized from his native Britain by Irish marauders when he was sixteen years old. Though the son of a deacon and grandson of a priest, it was not until…
She was the daughter of King Edgar of England and Wulfrida. She was born at Kensing, England, in 961, and was brought as a very young child to Wilton Abbey by her mother, who later became a nun there and…
Bishop and confessor; date of birth unknown; died about 432; the first Apostle of Christianity in Scotland. The earliest account of him is in Bede (Hist. Eccles., III, 4): “the southern Picts received the true faith by the preaching of…
Adrian was a later missionary of the Celtic Church, martyred on the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth near the end of the ninth century. Perhaps Adrian, said to have been a young disciple of Acca of Hexham,…
Founder of the Abbey and Diocese of Mayo, born in Connacht, c. 605; died 8 August, 676. He became a monk of Iona, and so famous were his virtues and learning, as testified by St. Bede, that on the death…