Milred of Worcester

Saint Milred of Worcester, Bishop (Mildred, Hildred) was an Anglo-⁠Saxon Bishop of Worcester, consecrated between 743 and 745, who died in 774. In the early 750s he travelled to Germany, where he met Saint Boniface and Lull. A letter from him to Lull, written soon after his return, on the subject of Boniface's martyrdom, shows that he was familiar with the works of Virgil and Horace. He compiled a collection of epigrams and epigraphs on Anglo-⁠Saxon churchmen, some of whom are known only from this work; the work is lost apart from a single page of a tenth-⁠century copy held by the library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-⁠Champaign. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally.