Pershore Abbey, Pershore, Worcestershire, England
Sainte Edburga
Abbesse de Winchester
28/06 - 15/06
Morte en 960. Sainte
Edburga fut une grande-fille du roi Alfred et la fille d'Edouard l'Ancien. On
rapporte que, bien qu'étant encore jeune enfant, son royal père lui offrit un
précieux bijoux dans une main, et un habit pénitentiel dans l'autre. Edburge choisit
avec joie ce dernier. Suite à cela, ses parents la firent entrer au couvent de
Sainte Marie, qui avait été fondé par la veuve d'Alfred, Alswide, à Winchester,
et achevé par son père, et placé sous la direction de sainte Etheldred. Ayant
terminé son éducation, Edburge devint moniale et plus tard abbesse de la
fondation. Après le décès d'Edburge suite à une fièvre, l'évêque Saint
Ethelwold plaça ses restes dans une riche châsse, que l'abbesse sainte Elfleda
recouvrit d'or et d'argent. Quand le comte Egilwald de Dorsetshire rechercha
des reliques pour sa nouvelle fondation de Pershore dans le Worcestershire
après le pillage par les Danois, l'abbesse lui donna une partie du chef
d'Edburge, plus d'autres ossements, qui furent placés dans un riche coffret. Elle
était particulièrement vénérée à Pershore dans le Worcestershire, où ces
reliques étaient enchâssées et où nombre de miracles eurent lieu.
SOURCE : http://www.histoire-russie.fr/icone/saints_fetes/textes/edburga.html
Cet
autel gothique d'Eadburh se trouvait
à l'origine au prieuré de Bicester avant d'être rapatrié à Stanton
Harcourt après la dissolution des monastères.
St Michael's parish church, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire: shrine to St Edburg, dated 1294–1317
Also known as
Eadburh
Edburga
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Daughter
of King Edward
the Elder and Edgiva of Kent; grand-daughter of King Alfred
the Great. As a child she
was placed in the convent of
Nunnaminster, Winchester, England, which King Alfred’s widow had
founded. She lived her whole life there, a holy nun and abbess.
interred
at the Nunnaminster convent,
Winchester, England
some relics translated
to Pershore Abbey,
Worcestershire, England,
which became famous for its miracles
Additional Information
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MLA Citation
“Saint
Edburgh of Winchester“. CatholicSaints.Info. 29 January 2019. Web. 10
April 2024. <https://catholicsaints.info/saint-edburgh-of-winchester/>
SOURCE :
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-edburgh-of-winchester/
Book of Saints
– Edburga – 21 December
Article
EDBURGA (Saint) Virgin
(December 21) (10th century) The saintly daughter of King Edward the Elder, a
nun and Abbess at Winchester, where she passed to her heavenly reward (A.D.
960).
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Edburga”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 21
November 2012.
Web. 10 April 2024.
<http://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-edburga-21-december/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-edburga-21-december/
Edburga of Winchester,
OSB V Abbess (AC)
Died 960. Saint Edburga
was a granddaughter of King Alfred and the daughter of Edward the Elder. It is
reported that, while she was still a young child, her royal father offered her
precious jewels in one hand and a penitential habit in the other. Edburga chose
the latter joyfully. At that her parents placed her in Saint Mary's Convent,
which was founded by Alfred's widow, Alswide, at Winchester, finished by her
own father, and placed under the direction of Saint Etheldreda. Having finished
her education, Edburga became a nun and later the abbess of the foundation.
After Edburga died of a fever, Bishop Saint Ethelwold placed her remains in a
rich shrine, which Abbess Saint Elfleda covered with gold and silver. When the
Earl Egilwald of Dorsetshire sought relics for his newly rebuilt foundation of
Pershore in Worcestershire after its pillage by the Danes, the abbess give him
part of Edburga's skull, some of her ribs, and other bones, which were enclosed
in a rich case. She was especially venerated at Pershore in Worcestershire,
where these relics were enshrined and many miracles have taken place, and at
Saint Mary's in Winchester
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0615.shtml
Saint Edburgh (also Edburga, Eadburga)
is commemorated on December 13/26. She was a princess from the royal house of
Wessex. From childhood Edburgh wished to dedicate her life to the service of
God. She was noted for her extraordinary intellectual abilities and thirst for
knowledge. Her spiritual friend, mentoress and predecessor was St. Mildred. The
tradition holds that Edburgh eventually became the third abbess of
Minster-in-Thanet, ruling the convent for some 35 years (probably from 716 to
751). St. Edburgh for many years was a friend and correspondent of St.
Boniface, the English Apostle to the German Lands (c. 675-754), whom she met
during her early pilgrimage to Rome. Edburgh was one of the talented English
nuns of the age who supported the mission of Boniface to Germany. It is known
that Edburgh was a skilled calligrapher and scribe. Thus, once at the request
of Boniface the holy abbess copied some manuscripts and sent them to him for
his use: among them were the Acts of Martyrs and the Epistles of Apostle Peter,
written in golden letters. Once the abbess sent him 50 pieces of gold and a
carpet, a sign of generosity confirming her lineage to the royal family. Some
while later the holy Bishop Lull of Mainz, helper of St. Boniface, sent her
spices and a silver stylus (a writing implement) as presents.
In Minster Edburgh
rebuilt the convent for her nuns and built a new abbey church dedicated to the
Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (patrons of a whole host of early English
churches) in which she placed the precious relics of her spiritual mother, St.
Mildred. The holy maiden of Christ also secured several royal charters with
privileges for her convent. Under St. Edburgh Minster may well have controlled
half of Thanet. After many years of unceasing labors the holy abbess reposed in
the Lord peacefully in 751. Her relics were enshrined inside the church, and
very many cases of healing miracles from her shrine were reported. Later, in
the eleventh century, the relics of St. Edburgh and a portion of the relics of
St. Mildred were translated to the Hospital of St. Gregory in Canterbury where
their veneration continued. Notably, the early English Church can boast five
female saints with the name “Edburgh”. In addition to Edburgh of Minster, there
were Edburgh of Bicester (mid-seventh century. Part of her shrine exists in the
Church of the Archangel Michael in the village of Stanton Harcourt in
Oxfordshire), Edburgh of Lyminge (a nun of the seventh century), Edburgh of
Repton (during whose abbacy St. Guthlac of Crowland became a monk at her double
monastery) and Edburgh of Winchester (a nun and wonderworker, granddaughter of
Alfred the Great, who reposed in 960 and was venerated in Winchester in
Hampshire, Westminster in London, and at Pershore in Worcestershire).
Source : http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/80901.htm
St. Edburga of Winchester
(c.AD 920-960)
Princess Edburga of
England was the daughter of King Edward
the Elder by his third marriage to Lady Edith of Kent, friend and
supporter of St.
Dunstan. She was the full younger sister of both Kings Edmund
the Magnificent and Edred,
born around AD 920. Unlike her brothers, however, Edburga was destined not for
secular but for ecclesiastical greatest.
At the age of only three,
it is said the young princess was offered the choice of a small chalice and
paten or gold and jewellery. The little girl eagerly took up the former and thus
convinced her father of her ultimate vocation. She was soon placed under the
educational charge of a Royal cousin, Abbess Ethelthritha of the Nunnaminster in
Winchester, whose community received endowments and gifts from the grateful
monarch. As King Edward had foreseen, his daughter became revered for her
holiness even within her own lifetime. She was loved by all her contemporaries
for her gentleness and humility. She even washed the socks of her fellows by
night. It is not clear whether she eventually became Abbess of the Nunnaminster
herself, but she was certainly one of its best known nuns. Edburga died at the
Abbey, probably around AD 960 (though possibly as early as AD 951). She was
only about thirty at the time. She was buried within the Abbey church and
quickly accepted as a saint, though some of her
relics were later translated to Pershore
Abbey in Worcestershire. Edburga's feast is celebrated in 15th June.
SOURCE : http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/adversaries/bios/edburga.html
