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Saint Kenelm

Mercian monarch and saint

SaintKingdom of MerciaPre-congregation

Feast: 17 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
786
Died
821
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Saint Kenelm (or Cynehelm) was an Anglo-Saxon saint, venerated throughout medieval England, and mentioned in the Canterbury Tales (The Nun's Priest's Tale, lines 290–301, in which the cockerel Chauntecleer tries to demonstrate the reality of prophetic dreams to his wife Pertelote). William of Malmesbury, writing in the 12th century, recounted that "there was no place in England to which more pilgrims travelled than to Winchcombe [in Gloucestershire] on Kenelm's feast day".

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources
  • Wikidata Q1063344 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Saint Kenelm (CC BY-SA)

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