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Tetta
Saxon saint
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 28 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
772
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Tetta was abbess of the monastery of Wimborne in Dorset, where the young St Lioba was placed in her care, professed and educated.
About 748 St Boniface asked St Tetta to send Lioba and other nuns to help him in Germany.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: she has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
An eighth-century abbess of Wimborne who formed St Lioba.
Sources
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, ed. Thurston and Attwater (1956), vol. III - 28 September
- Wikidata Q114775069 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.