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Arilda of Oldbury
Christian female saint
SaintDate unknown
Feast: 20 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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Died
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Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Saint Arilda, or Saint Arild, was a female saint from Oldbury-on-Severn in the English county of Gloucestershire. She probably lived in the 5th- or 6th-century and may have been of either Anglo-Saxon or Welsh origin.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- santiebeati.it, 'Sant' Arilde di Kington, Vergine e martire' — 'Sant' Arilde di Kington, Vergine e martire, Kington presso Oldbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, V-VI sec., festa 20 luglio' — feast matches the entry exactly. Stanton notes she was 'honoured at Gloucester Abbey... mentio
- Wikidata Q4790662 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Arilda of Oldbury (CC BY-SA)
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