Holy Venerable Martyrs
Hedda and Companions
An abbot and monks of Medeshamstede, slain by the Danes in 869.
Life
Holy Venerable Martyrs Hedda, abbot of the monastery of Medeshamstede (Peterborough) in England, and eighty-four of his monks were killed by the Danes around 869, in their onslaught on England, in which they attacked monasteries in particular. Hedda and Companions are saints of the undivided Church, commemorated on 9 April (new style; 22 April in the old style).
Commemorated the same day April 9
- Maximus of AlexandriaSaint · Patriarch of AlexandriaApr 9
Acacius of AmidaSaint · Bishop of AmidaApr 9
Bademus of PersiaVenerable Martyr · Abbot and martyr of PersiaApr 9
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Aedesius of AlexandriaMartyr · Brother of Saint AmphianApr 9
Eupsychius of CaesareaMartyr · Martyr of Caesarea in CappadociaApr 9- ClementinaMartyrApr 9
- Theodore of CrowlandVenerable Martyr · Abbot of CrowlandApr 9
- Abdies of PersiaMartyrApr 9
- AedhachSaintApr 9
- Bat Emas of PersiaMartyrApr 9
- BroganSaintApr 9