Ebba the Elder

Venerable Ebba the Elder was the daughter of Æthelfrith, king of Bernicia, and the sister of the Northumbrian kings Saint Oswald and Oswiu in England. She became a nun at Lindisfarne and founded monasteries at Ebchester and at St Abb's Head near Coldingham, in present-⁠day Scotland, where she served as abbess. She reposed in the year 683.

She is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 25 August (new style, Western calendar). She is not to be confused with Ebba the Younger, also abbess of Coldingham, who perished with her nuns around 870 when the Danes set fire to the convent.