Mildgyth
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Saint Mildgyth | |
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Abbess | |
Born | Unknown |
Died | 676 |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Eastern Orthodox Church |
Canonized | Pre-Congregation |
Feast | 17 January |
Saint Mildgyth (or Mildgytha) (Old English: Mildgȳð) (died 676) was the youngest daughter of Merewalh, king of Mercia and Saint Eormenburh.[1] She was the youngest sister of Saint Mildburh of Wenlock and Saint Mildrith.[2] The three sisters have been likened to the three theological virtues: Mildburh to faith, Mildgyth to hope, and Mildrith to charity.[3]
She was a Benedictine nun and later abbess of a Northumbrian convent. All that is known of St Mildgytha was that she was a nun and that “miraculous powers were often exhibited” at her tomb in Northumbria.[4] She seems to have died long before her sisters, while still quite young, which may account for so little mention of her.[3]
Her feast day is 17 January.
References
- ^ Farmer, David Hugh. (1978). The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ Baring-Gould, S., "S. Mildgytha V.", Lives of the Saints, Vol. I, John Grant, Edinburgh, 1914
- ^ a b O.S.B., "St. Mildred and Her Kinsfolk", Virgin Saints of the Benedictine Order
- ^ "St. Milburga", Diocese of Shrewsbury
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