The (refounded) Priory Church building at Leominster
Eadfrith of Leominster also known as Eadridus (died 675) was a seventh century Catholic saint[1] from Anglo-Saxon England.[2] Although very little is known of his early life, he is an important figure in the process of Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England.
Eadfrith came from Northumbria and worked as a missionary to the Hwicce kingdom and in 660 converted King Merewalh of the Hwicce, a contemporary (and possibly son)[3] of King Penda of Mercia.[4]
Around 660 Eadfrith also founded Leominster Abbey for women,[5][6] as a conventual priory of the monks of Reading Abbey.[7] This abbey was mentioned in the Domesday Book and was re-founded about 1139.[8] at which time it may have been associated with the royal family.[9]
Eadfrith is known to history mainly through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript,[10] but also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle[11] and the Catalogus sanctorum pausantium in Anglia.[12]
Eadfrith died in 675[13] and was buried in Leominster. His feast day is on 26 October.[14]
^The Oxford Dictionary of Saints
^Patrick Sims-Williams, Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800 (Cambridge University Press, 2005) p 101.
^Kentish royal legend.
^Patrick Sims-Williams, Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800 (Cambridge University Press, 2005) p55.
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