Everilda
Saint Everild of Everingham(Old English:Eoforhild)[1]was anAnglo-Saxonsaintof the 7th century who founded a convent atEveringham,in theEnglishcounty of theEast Riding of Yorkshire.All we know of her comes from theYork Breviary.[2]
There are two churches dedicated to St Everilda:St Everilda's Church, Nether Poppleton,andSs Mary & Everilda, Everingham.
She was converted toChristianityby SaintBirinus,along with KingCynegils of Wessex,in 635. Her legend in the York Breviary states that she was of theWessexnobility.She fled from home to become anun,and was joined by Saints Bega and Wuldreda.Saint Wilfrid of Yorkmade them all nuns at a place called the Bishop's Dwelling, later known as Everildisham. This place has been identified with present-day Everingham. She gathered a large community of some eighty women.
Veneration
[edit]Her name appears in theMartyrology of Usuardas well as in the church calendars ofYorkandNorthumbria.
Notes
[edit]- ^"Everilda"in Frances Egerton Arnold-Forster,Studies in church dedications: or, England's patron saints,1899:403f, based onActa Sanctorum,"setting forth three lessons on the saint". AlsoEverildis.
- ^David Hugh Farmer, ed.The Oxford Dictionary Of Saints,s.v."Everild (Everildis, Averil)".
External links
[edit]- "St. Everildis, Virgin, in England",Butler's Lives of the Saints
- Saints of July 9: Everild of Everingham
- St. Everild of Everingham
- Catholic Online entry
- Converts to Christianity from Anglo-Saxon paganism
- West Saxon saints
- Northumbrian saints
- Anglo-Saxon nuns
- History of the East Riding of Yorkshire
- Christianity in the East Riding of Yorkshire
- Yorkshire saints
- 7th-century Christian saints
- Female saints of medieval England
- 7th-century English nuns
- 7th-century Christian nuns