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Venerable Martyr

Egelred

A monk of Crowland, slain by the Danes in 869.

Feast
September 25old style October 8
Reposed
8699th century
Place
Crowland Abbey
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Egelred was a monk at Crowland Abbey in England, and he received martyrdom with his abbot and many others, slain by the heathen Danes around 869. He is commemorated on 25 September, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details.

Commemorated the same day September 25