Wendreda

Saint Wendreda
Borndate unknown
Perhaps Exning, Suffolk
Dieddate unknown
March, Isle of Ely
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Anglican Communion, Orthodox Church[1]
Major shrineEly Cathedral; St Wendreda's Church, March
Feast22 January
AttributesNun, healer
PatronageMarch, 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.