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Saint

Aethelmod of Leominster

An Anglo-⁠Saxon saint honored at Leominster, of the 7th century.

Era
7th century
Place
Leominster

Life

Saint Aethelmod of Leominster was an Anglo-⁠Saxon saint of the early Middle Ages, known mainly from the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript. He is said to be buried at Leominster in Herefordshire, in England, where there had been a community of clergy before the later priory. No other details of his life have been kept. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.