Mildrith


Mildrith
Abbess
Bornunknown, c. 660
Diedunknown, c. 730-731
Minster-in-Thanet
Venerated inCatholic Church
Anglican Communion
Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonized1388 by Urban VI
Major shrineMinster-in-Thanet
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
Feast13 July
AttributesPrincess's crown, Abbess's crozier, hind
St Mildred, Preston-next-Wingham, Kent

Saint Mildrith, also Mildthryth, Mildryth and Mildred, (Old English: Mildþrȳð) (born c. 660, died after 732), was a 7th- and 8th-century Anglo-Saxon abbess of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet, Kent. She was declared a saint after her death, and, in 1030, her remains were moved to Canterbury.