Juthwara
British martyr
Feast: 18 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Juthwara or Jutwara was a virgin and martyr from Dorset. According to her legend, she was an eighth-century Saxon, and sister to Sidwell, though some historians have theorised she was a Briton living in the sixth century. Her relics were translated to Sherborne during the reign of Ethelred the Unready. Nothing further is known with certainty about her life.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Paul Aurelian Saint“Those who prefer a 6th-century British origin have hypothesised her as sister to Paul Aurelian and Wulvela, though this is debated.” — Wikipedia
- Stanton, A Menology of England and Wales, 13 July — "At Shirburne, the translation of St. Juthware, Virgin" — with a notice of her martyrdom; a real English Catholic veneration.
- Wikidata Q16200140 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Juthwara (CC BY-SA)
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