Æthelberht
King of Kent from 589
Feast: 25 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Æthelberht (; Old English: Æðelberht [ˈæðelberˠxt]; c. 550 – 24 February 616) was King of Kent from about 589 until his death. The eighth-century monk Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, lists him as the third king to hold imperium over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. In the late-ninth-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he is referred to as a bretwalda, or "Britain-ruler". He was the first Anglo-Saxon king to convert to Christianity.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Bertha of Kent Saint Spouse
- Æthelburh of Kent Saint Child
- Gregory I Saint“Bertha's influence may have led to Pope Gregory I's decision to send Augustine as a missionary from Rome.” — Wikipedia
- Wikidata Q272173 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Æthelberht of Kent (CC BY-SA)
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