Hereswith

Hereswith was a princess of Northumbria in England and the sister of Saint Hilda of Whitby. She married into the royal house of East Anglia, became queen, and then withdrew to Gaul to lead a monastic life. She ended her days as a nun at Chelles around the year 690. Her story is known chiefly from the Ecclesiastical History of Saint Bede. She is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

Her commemoration falls on 3 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 16 September of the civil calendar.