Feast day: February 9

Bishop of Llandaff

Feast day: July 18

Also known as Enoch, Dwynwen, Thaney, Thenaw, Thenog, Thenova, Theneva (6th cent.)

Mother of St. Kentigern of Glasgow.

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...

Feast day: September 19

Archbishop of Canterbury. AD 602-690.

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 English Church was willing to acknowledge...