Saint
Theneva was a British princess, daughter of a British prince, Lothus
(from whom the
province of
Lothian was called). When
it was discovered that she had conceived out of wedlock, she was thrown from a
cliff. Unharmed at the bottom, she was then set adrift in a boat on the Firth
of Forth. It was
expected that she would die at sea, but God had other plans for the young
woman...
A
native of
Tarsus in
Cilicia,
Theodore was born about AD 602. Having studied in
Athens,
he visited
Rome
and, whilst there, was appointed by Pope Vitalian to the See of Canterbury,
which had been vacant for four years. Theodore arrived in
England in AD
669 and was well received everywhere. He was the first Archbishop whose
authority the whole
EnglishChurch was willing to
acknowledge...