Cissa of Crowland
Mercian saint
Feast: 23 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Cissa of Crowland was a saint in the medieval Fenlands. He was the successor of Guthlac as abbot of Crowland, and is mentioned in Felix' Vita Guthlaci. According to the Crowland Chronicle his tomb was next to Guthlac's, and like the tomb of Guthlac, was destroyed by the Scandinavians. His relics were translated to Thorney Abbey in the 10th-century.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q4222292 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Cissa of Crowland (CC BY-SA)
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