Eadburh of Bicester
English nun and saint
Feast: 18 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Eadburh of Bicester (also Eadburth, or Edburg, death c. 650) was an English nun, abbess, and saint from the 7th century. She has been called a "bit of a mystery"; there have been several Saxon saints with the same name, so it is difficult to pinpoint which one was Eadburh. It is said that Eadburh of Bicester was the daughter of King Penda of Mercia, who was pagan but had several children who were Christians, or King Frithewald. Eadburgh was born in the now-deserted village of Quarrendon in Buckinghamshire. Her sister was Edith (or Eadith), with whom she co-founded an abbey near Aylesburg;
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Æthelred of Mercia Saint Brother or sister
- CatholicSaints.Info — Saint Edburgh of Bicester — The seventh-century Anglo-Saxon nun honoured at Bicester in Oxfordshire, feast 18 July.
- Wikidata Q2019824 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Eadburh of Bicester (CC BY-SA)
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