Saint
Beonna of Breedon
An Anglo-Saxon saint honored at Breedon on the Hill, of the 9th century.
- Era
- 9th century
- Place
- Breedon-on-the-Hill
Life
Saint Beonna of Breedon (Breedon on the Hill) is a little-known Anglo-Saxon saint of the ninth century. Medieval hagiographical manuscripts record four saints buried at Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire: Friduricus, donor of the Mercian royal monastery built there in the seventh century, King Eardwulf of Northumbria, and the relatively unknown Saints Beonna and Cotta. No other details of Beonna have been kept. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.