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Venerable

Ermengyth

A princess of Kent, a nun on the isle of Thanet with her sister, reposed around 680.

Feast
July 30old style August 12
Reposed
6807th century
Place
St Ermenburgh

Life

Ermengyth was a princess of Kent and the sister of Saint Ermenburgh. She lived as a nun at Minster-⁠in-⁠Thanet, on the isle of Thanet in England, with her sister, and reposed around the year 680. She is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

Her commemoration falls on 30 July (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 12 August of the civil calendar.

Commemorated the same day July 30