Mildrith
Mildrith | |
|---|---|
| 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.