Berhtwald
Abbot of Glastonbury; Archbishop of Canterbury
Feast: 9 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Berhtwald (died 731) was the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury in England. His predecessor had been Theodore of Tarsus. Berhtwald begins the first continuous series of native-born Archbishops of Canterbury, although there had been previous Anglo-Saxon archbishops, they did not succeed each other until Berhtwald's successor Tatwine.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Theodore of Tarsus Saint“His predecessor had been Theodore of Tarsus.” — Wikipedia
- Butler's Lives of the Saints (Thurston and Attwater) - St Berhtwald of Canterbury, archbishop, 9 January — Butler's has a full entry for him at 9 January, the date Wikidata gives as his feast.
- Wikidata Q663059 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Berhtwald (CC BY-SA)
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