Saint
Menefrida
A woman saint of Cornwall, honored at Tredresick.
- Feast
- July 24old style August 6
- Era
- 5th century
- Place
- Tredresick
Life
Saint Menefrida (Menefreda, Menwreda or Minefreda) was a Cornish saint of the fifth century, patron of Tredresick and of the parish of St Minver, near the Camel estuary. She is said to have been one of the many children of the Welsh king Brychan and has been called a saint since at least 1256. William of Worcester, copying from a calendar at Bodmin in the fifteenth century, wrote that she was "a virgin, not a martyr". Her church at St Minver, in the Transitional Norman and Early English styles, is dedicated to her.
She is commemorated on 24 July as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources say no more of her life.
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