Herefrith of Thorney

Saint Herefrith of Thorney, Bishop (Herefrid) was Bishop of Lindsey in England; an eleventh-⁠century text calls him Bishop of Lincoln, but the see of Lincoln dates only from 1072, so Lindsey, the early name of Lincolnshire, is more probable. He was buried at Louth, where he was venerated; he is called the "forgotten saint" of the town and his feast is kept on 27 February (new style, Western calendar).

Saint Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester from 963 to 984, was seeking relics for his rebuilt Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire and sent his monks to Louth to take Herefrith's shrine. Since then his relics have been venerated at Thorney. At Louth, Herefrith appears in accounts from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, and an ivory comb, one of his relics, was among the possessions of the church at Louth. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated at Louth and Thorney.