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Arilda of Oldbury
Christian female saint
SaintDate unknown
Feast: 20 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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Died
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Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Saint Arilda, or Saint Arild, was a female saint from Oldbury-on-Severn in the English county of Gloucestershire. She probably lived in the 5th- or 6th-century and may have been of either Anglo-Saxon or Welsh origin.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Afrelia Saint“Bartrum suggests that she may be identical to the little-known Saint Arilda of Oldbury-on-Severn and Oldbury-on-the-Hill in Gloucestershire.” — Wikipedia
Sources
- Wikidata Q4790662 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Arilda of Oldbury (CC BY-SA)
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