Bishop
of
Lindisfarne. Born in
Ireland; died
651. Also
known as Aeda or Áedán (in old Irish).
Saint
Aidan is said to have been a disciple of Saint Senan (f.d. March 8) on
ScatteryIsland,
but nothing else is known with certainty of his early life before he became a
monk of
Iona...
St.
Cuthburga was the daughter of Prince Coenred, a second-cousin of Caedwalla,
King of Wessex. Her brothers were St. Ine, King of Wessex and Ingild,
great-great-grandfather of Egbert,
the first King of the English, and direct ancestor of Alfred the Great. Her sisters were St. Cwenburga, Edburga and Tata…
A
Saxon princess who founded a nunnery on the coast near
Folkestone,
Kent. She
was grand-daughter of King Saint Aethelbert. She is also known as Eanswida,
Eanswide, Eanswith. She died August 31, c. 640...
First Abbess
of
Coldingham,
Northumbria. Sister of King Oswy. Died
in 683. Also known as Aebbe, Ebbe, Tabbs.
Saint
Ebba, the daughter of King Ethelfrith of
Northumbria,
fled to
Scotland
with her brothers Saint Oswald and Oswy, when their father died in
battle in 616 against King Saint Edwin (f.d. October 12)...
Hermit
at Meaux (France). Born in
Ireland;
died c. 670. Also
known as Fiachra, Fiaker, Fiacrius, Fialer, Fevre.
The
Irish hermit of Kilfiachra, Saint Fiacre, migrated to
Gaul
about 626 where he was given hospitality and a piece of land by Saint Faro
(f.d. October 28) at Meaux, which was part of his own patrimony...
Abbess
of
Whitby. Born in
Northumbria in 614; died at
Whitby in 680.
Hilda
was a grandniece of King Edwin of
Northumbria and daughter of Hereric.
Hild is her correct name and means "battle." Both she and her uncle
were baptized by Saint Paulinus at
York
in 627, when she was 13....
King of Northumbria and Martyr. Born,
probably, 605; died 5 Aug., 642.
The
second of seven brothers, sons
of Ethelfrid, who was grandson of Ida, founder of the
Kingdom of
Northumbria
in 547. Oswald's
mother was Acha, daughter of Ella or Alla, who, after
Ida's death, had seized Deira and thus separated it from the
Northern
Bernicia...
Died at Gilling,
Yorkshire,
England,
on August 20, 651.
When
his father, King Osric of Deira (roughly the county of Yorkshire), was killed
by the pagan Welsh King Cadwallon in 633, he was taken to Wessex for safety,
baptized, and educated there by Saint Aidan...
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