Lewinna

Saint Lewinna (Lewina, Lewine or Leofwynn) was a British virgin put to death by the Saxon invaders, in the seventh century (by some accounts the fifth). Little is known of her life. One source says she lived during the reign of King Ecgberht of Kent (664 to 673) and was killed by a pagan Saxon because of her faith, in the lifetime of Archbishop Theodore of Tarsus. Dunbar considers her to have been of royal birth. She was buried at a monastery in Sussex dedicated to Saint Andrew, possibly connected with Lewes, near Seaford.

In 1058 a monk of the abbey of Bergues in Flanders named Balgerus took her relics and carried them by ship to Bergues-⁠Saint-⁠Winoc, together with those of Saint Idaberga and part of those of Saint Oswald. The monk Drogo wrote a lengthy account of the removal and of the miracles then worked. The relics were burned when the abbey was destroyed in religious disturbances in 1522 (according to Dunbar, in 1558). She is commemorated on 24 July as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.