Mildrith | |
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Abbess | |
Born | unknown, c. 660 |
Died | unknown, c. 730-731 Minster-in-Thanet |
Venerated in | Catholic Church Anglican Communion Eastern Orthodox Church |
Canonized | 1388 by Urban VI |
Major shrine | Minster-in-Thanet St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury |
Feast | 13 July |
Attributes | Princess's crown, Abbess's crozier, hind |
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.