August 26 · —

St. Eregwin

St. Eregwin, Abe. of Canterbury

Traditional feast

August 26
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Feast

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

Remembered as · — · A.D. 765
Patronage · None recorded in our sources

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on August 26 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

The full original · 0 words

Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Wilson in his Anglican Martyrology, Mayhew, and Menardus. Authorities: — A life by Eadmer, d. 1124, and mention in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.] Bregwin, an Anglo-Saxon, was a disciple of S. Theodore at Canterbury. He entered the monastery founded by S. Augustine there at an early age. Cuthbert, Archbishop of Canterbury, died in a.d. 758, and Ring Ethelbert, son of Wigthred, being then King of Kent, proposed Bregwin to the people1 as bishop in the room of the deceased Cuthbert. He was unanimously elected, by clergy and people, and was consecrated on the 29th September, and died, after a good life and upright government of his see, in a.d. 762. Eadmer has spun these scanty facts into a lengthy life.

Feast days

Feast: August 26

Also on August 26

St. Zephyrinus

August 26 · Feast

St. Rose of Lima

August 26 · Virgin

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Traditional (1914 / pre-1969) · August 26 · Baring-Gould (1897)
Current (General Roman Calendar / Roman Martyrology) · Not verified yet · Unverified · not found

Sources

Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible)

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.