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Wendreda

Anglo-Saxon nun and saint

SaintPre-congregation

Feast: 22 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
700
Died
700
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Wendreda, also known as Wendreth, was an Anglo-Saxon nun, healer, and saint, perhaps of the 7th century. She was uncertainly reported as a daughter of King Anna of East Anglia, a Christian king, which would make her a sister of Etheldreda, abbess of Ely, Sexburgha, abbess of Minster-in-Sheppey, and Ethelburga, abbess of Faremoutiers, who are all better-known saints, and a half-sister of Sæthryth, also an abbess of Faremoutiers.

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources
  • Wikidata Q52504396 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Wendreda (CC BY-SA)

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