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…
A Saxon princess who founded a nunnery on the coast nearFolkestone,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 by the…
He is the founder of the Church in southern England, which at that time was almost entirely pagan, though Christianity thrived in the Celtic lands of Ireland, Wales and parts of Scotland. Augustine, a monk at the monastery of St…
He died in 576. Constantine was a king of Cornwall, the son of Padeon, whose conversion probably dates from a confrontation with St. Petroc who was sheltering a stag which had taken refuge with him. Constantine married a princess from…
Abbess of Whitby. Born in Northumbria in 614; died at Whitby in 680. Hilda was a grandniece of King Edwin of Northumbria and daughter of Hereric. Hild is her correct name and means “battle.” Both she and her uncle were…
The holy and right-believing King Edward the Martyr (c. 962 – March 18, 978/979) succeeded his father Edgar of England as King of England in 975, but was murdered after a reign of only a few years. As the murder…
Non (also Nonna or Nonnita) was, according to Christian tradition, the mother of Saint David (Dewi Sant), the patron saint of Wales… Her legend states that she was seduced by a chieftain named Sant or Sanctus and gave birth to…
Our father among the saints Chad of Lichfield and Mercia (+672) also called St. Caedda was a missionary, bishop, healer, and wonderworker who spread the Orthodox Catholic Faith throughout the British Isles. His feast day is commemorated on March 2.…
Patron of Wales. Bishop and Confessor. Also known as Degui and Dewi. He is usually represented standing on a little hill, with a dove on his shoulder. The earliest mention of St. David is found in a tenth-century manuscript Of…
He was born around 681 possibly in Devon or Cornwall, or more probably in Chidham near Bosham, about 25 miles from Steyning. His life was one of simple filial piety and charity… According to legend, he was a shepherd who…