31 August ~ St. Cuthburga
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 wer...
Tag: Scottish Saints
30 November ~ Feast of St. Andrew the First Called
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...
31 August ~ St. Eanswythe
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, Eansw...
18 July ~ St. Enoch/St. Thenew
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 s...
20 March ~ St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne
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 b...
17 March ~ Saint Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Enlightener of Ireland
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 th...
16 September ~ Edith of Wilton
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 h...
16 September ~ St. Ninian
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...
4 March ~ St. Adrian
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...
18 February ~ St Colman
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, a...