Saint
Beornstan
Archdeacon
Anglo-Saxon archdeacon honored at St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury.
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Canterbury St Augustine's
Life
Saint Beornstan (Byrnstan) the Archdeacon was a saint of Kent in Anglo-Saxon England. Very little is known of his life. He was an archdeacon and was buried at Saint Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury, which suggests a possible link with the abbey from its early days. He is known mainly from the Secgan Manuscript and from the Catalogus Sanctorum in Anglia Pausantium.
He is not to be confused with Beornstan, Bishop of Winchester, who died in 934 and was also revered as a saint.