Everilda
Saint Everild of Everingham (
York Breviary.[2]
There are two churches dedicated to St Everilda: St Everilda's Church, Nether Poppleton, and Ss Mary & Everilda, Everingham.
She was converted to
Saint Wilfrid of York
made them all nuns at a place called the Bishop's Dwelling, later known as Everildisham. This place has been identified with present-day Everingham. She gathered a large community of some eighty women.
Veneration
Her name appears in the Martyrology of Usuard as well as in the church calendars of York and Northumbria.
Her
9 July
.
Notes
- ^ "Everilda" in Frances Egerton Arnold-Forster, Studies in church dedications: or, England's patron saints, 1899:403f, based on Acta Sanctorum, "setting forth three lessons on the saint". Also Everildis.
- ^ David Hugh Farmer, ed. The Oxford Dictionary Of Saints, s.v. "Everild (Everildis, Averil)".
External links
- "St. Everildis, Virgin, in England", Butler's Lives of the Saints
- Saints of July 9: Everild of Everingham
- St. Everild of Everingham
- Catholic Online entry
