Saint Aldate

Saint Aldate (/ˈɔːldt/; died 577) was a bishop of Gloucester, venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church with the feast day of 4 February. Aldate's life is not detailed historically, but he was probably a Briton killed by the Anglo-Saxons at Deorham.[1]

He is reported to have roused the countryside to resist pagan invasion forces. But nothing seems to be known of him: it was even suggested that his name was a corruption of "old gate".

  1. ^ "Aldate", The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, 5th ed. (David Farmer, ed.) OUP, 2011 ISBN 9780199596607