Edburga of Caistor

Saint Edburga of Caistor was an English nun, daughter of the pagan king Penda of Mercia. Together with her sisters, Saint Cyneburh (wife of King Alchfrith of Deira), Cyneswith and Chinesdre, she devoted herself to God and entered the convent of Dormundcastor or Caistor, in Northamptonshire. She died in this convent (one source gives 670, another the end of the 7th century) and was buried there.

Her relics, together with those of Saints Oswald and Lewin, were lost in the fire of the abbey in 1558. She is venerated as a saint in the Western Church and remembered on 20 June.