Saint Wendreda | |
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| Born | date unknown Perhaps Exning, Suffolk |
| Died | date unknown March, Isle of Ely |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church Anglican Communion, Orthodox Church[1] |
| Major shrine | Ely Cathedral; St Wendreda's Church, March |
| Feast | 22 January |
| Attributes | Nun, healer |
| Patronage | March, Cambridgeshire |
Wendreda, also known as Wendreth, was an Anglo-Saxon nun, healer, and saint, perhaps of the 7th century. She was uncertainly reported as a daughter of King Anna of East Anglia, a Christian king, which would make her a sister of Etheldreda, abbess of Ely, Sexburgha, abbess of Minster-in-Sheppey, and Ethelburga, abbess of Faremoutiers, who are all better-known saints, and a half-sister of Sæthryth, also an abbess of Faremoutiers.
Wendreda is associated with March, in the Isle of Ely, and Exning, Suffolk.