Edith of Wilton

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Edith von Wilton (13th century)

Edith von Wilton , also Eadgyth of Wilton (* around 964 in Kensing , England ; † September 16, 984 in Wilton (Wiltshire) , England) was a Benedictine and is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church who is particularly venerated in England.

Life

Edith was born as the daughter of the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar the Peaceful (943 / 944–975, saint) and the noblewoman Wulftrud. Her mother had turned down Edgar's proposal and became a Benedictine. Edith grew up in the Benedictine convent Wilton near Salisbury , where her mother also lived and held the office of abbess . After the death of her mother, who had also become a nun, she became the superior of the monastery .

Her half-brother Eduard the Martyr (around 962–978, saint) was crowned at the age of twelve in 975 after the death of his father and murdered three years later. Edith refused the royal office that was offered to her, she worked in the monastery and turned to caring for the poor and caring for the sick until her death .

Archbishop Dunstan of Canterbury (961–988, saint) accompanied her in the last hours of her life, he had her interred in the Dionysius monastery church , which had been built in her honor, and promoted her worship and canonization . In art she is depicted as an abbess with a crook , a model of a church or sick people. Her feast day is September 16.

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SURNAME Edith of Wilton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eadgyth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saint of the Catholic Church, Benedictine
DATE OF BIRTH around 964
PLACE OF BIRTH Kensing
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 984
Place of death Wilton, Wiltshire