42. SAINT EDBURGA, ABBESS OF REPTON

The tenth-century Resting Place of the Saints records St. Edburga as «resting at Southwell-on-Trent. She is probably to be identified with the Edburga, abbess of Repton, who is mentioned in Felix's Life of St. Guthlac. She lived around the year 700.

Holy Mother Edburga, pray to God for us!

(Sources: Felix, Life of St. Guthlac; David Hugh Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford University Press, 1987, p. 128)