Sigeberht
East Anglian king and saint
Feast: 27 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Sigeberht of East Anglia (also known as Saint Sigebert), (Old English: Sigebryht) was a saint and a king of East Anglia, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was the first English king to receive a Christian baptism and education before his succession and the first to abdicate in order to enter the monastic life. The principal source for Sigeberht is Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which was completed in the 730s.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
- santiebeati.it — Santiebeati entry 92315: "San Sigeberto II — Re dell'Est Anglia, martire, +27 settembre 637", feast 27 September, matching the page.
- Wikidata Q509072 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Sigeberht of East Anglia (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.