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Mildred (d. 700?)

English saint and abbess. Name variations: Mildryth or Mildthryth (thryth means commanding or threatening; thus, Mildthryth means "one who is gently or mildly strict"). Died around 700; daughter of Merowald or Merwald, king of Mercia, and Ermenburga, the abbess of Minster; sister ofMildgythand SaintMilburg ; great-niece of Egbert, king of the English.

Ermenburga , queen of the Mercia, sent her daughter Mildred over to France, to the Abbey of Chelles, near Paris, where Mildred took the veil and was tutored in ecclesiastical learning. But she was persecuted by the abbess and returned to England, where she was appointed abbess of her mother's newly founded Monastery of Minstre. St. Theodorus, archbishop of Canterbury, conducted the installation service, and 70 girls joined the community on the same occasion.

St. Mildred proved to be a gentle and humble leader, and by her own holy life and example pointed the way for her charges. After a lingering and painful illness, Mildred died at the close of the 7th century. The monastery over which she h

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13 July is the feast of St Mildred, Anglo-Saxon abbess and patron of the island of Thanet in Kent, where I was born. She was also the dedicatee of my first school and (oddly, for such an obscure saint) of one of my Oxford colleges, so I have to declare a personal interest in her. A daughter of the Kentish royal house, she lived around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century, some 100 years after St Augustine brought Christianity to the coast of east Kent.

Mildred was the great-great-granddaughter of Ethelbert, the king of Kent whom Augustine encountered when he landed in England, and his wife Bertha. Ethelbert's great-granddaughter Domne Eafe founded an abbey in 670 near the site of Augustine's landing in Thanet, at the place now called Minster (after its monastery). I've posted more on the wonderful origin-legend of the abbey, deer and blasphemers and royal murderers and all, here. In the Anglo-Saxon period Thanet was an island, separated from the mainland by the Wantsum Channel (since silted up), which was marked at either end by the monumental ruins of Roman

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