Saint
Ceatta
A saint venerated in the Western Church, of whom few details survive.
- Era
- 7th century
Life
Saint Ceatta of Lichfield is an obscure Anglo-Saxon saint, probably of the 7th or 8th century, venerated by the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion, according to an Italian source. He is known only from a single mention in an 11th-century Old English list, "On the Resting-Places of the Saints", which says that Saint Chad (Ceadda), Saint Cedd and Saint Ceatta are buried in the monastery at Lichfield.
The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England lists him together with Headda of Hereford, also called Ceadda, an 8th-century bishop, but the association is not certain. Saint Chad lived in the 7th century around Lichfield in Mercia, and Saint Cedd was his brother. The name Ceatta is an Old English personal name meaning a swamp.