Ethelgitha

Ethelgitha was a holy woman of England, abbess of a convent in Northumbria, who reposed around the year 720. She is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

Her commemoration falls on 22 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 4 September of the civil calendar. We have no further details of her life.