Edilald

Edilald, also called Oediluald, Odilwald or Athelwald, is a Saxon priest named on 21 April in the Martyrology of Tallaght. The day follows the Julian calendar of the medieval martyrologies.

The entry suggests a connexion with Ireland through descent, birth, education or residence. Marianus O'Gorman calls him an "illustrious virgin", that is, a man of great purity. In the ancient Hieronymian martyrology of Echternach and other old sources the repose of the priest Oediluald is named on 21 April. The Bollandists also mention an Aedelwald, a priest and hermit in England, whose day is 23 March; Bede says he was a monk at Lindisfarne in the time of Saint Cuthbert, then a hermit there, then abbot, and reposed between 699 and 700. It cannot be said for certain whether this is the same person. He is honoured in the Irish calendars, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.