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Right-Believing
Ine of Wessex
King of Wessex
King of Wessex, lawgiver and builder of churches, who ended his life as a pilgrim in Rome.
- Feast
- September 8old style September 21
- Era
- 8th century
- Place
- Wessex
Life
Ine of Wessex was king of Wessex from 689 to 726. At his accession his kingdom dominated much of what is now southern England. Around 694 he issued a code of laws, the first issued by an Anglo-Saxon king outside Kent, which reveals his Christian convictions. Trade increased during his reign, and the town of Hamwic (now Southampton) became prominent. He built churches.
In 726 he abdicated to go to Rome, leaving, in the words of the chronicler Bede, the kingdom to younger men, and he ended his life there as a pilgrim. He was succeeded by Æthelheard. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.
His commemoration falls on 8 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 21 September of the civil calendar.
Commemorated the same day September 8
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Anastasius II of RomeSaint · Bishop of RomeSep 8
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Celestina of RomeMartyrSep 8- Giorgi MkheidzeVenerableSep 8
- Ioane MaisuradzeVenerableSep 8
- Athanasios of XirokriniSaintSep 8
- Ammon, Theophilus, Neoterius and twenty-two companionsHoly Martyrs · Martyrs of AlexandriaSep 8
- AmmoniusHieromartyr · Presbyter of AlexandriaSep 8
- ArtemidorusMartyrSep 8
- Basil RazumovHieromartyrSep 8