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July 7 · Virgin, Abbess

St. Ethelburga

St. Ethelburga

Building a community where women could live the Gospel together.

Traditional feast

July 7
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Virgin
Abbess

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

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Building a community where women could live the Gospel together.

Keep their day. Remember them on July 7 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Gullican Martyrologies. Molanus, Wyon, Menardus, and Modern Roman Martyrology. Authorities Mention by Bede in his EccL Hist] S. Ethelburga was the natural daughter of Anna, king of the East Angles between 635 and 654. She was half-sister of S. Sethrida and of S. Sexburga, S. Etheldreda, and S. Withburga. She retired to Faremoutier in Normandy, where was a community of religious women in which were many Anglo-Saxon princesses and ladies of rank. She succeeded her half-sister Sethrida as abbess of Faremoutier.

Feast days

Feast: July 7

Nine days · Free

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Ethelburga's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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St. Pantcenus

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

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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.

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.