Venerable
Alfreda
A princess of Mercia, daughter of King Offa, a recluse at Crowland, reposed around 835.
- Feast
- August 2old style August 15
- Reposed
- 8359th century
- Place
- Mercia
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Alfreda (Etheldritha) was a princess of Mercia, the daughter of King Offa, who lived as an anchoress at Crowland in Lincolnshire after the murder of her betrothed, Saint Ethelbert. She reposed around 835.
She is commemorated on 2 August as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details of her life.
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