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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Modwenna of Polesworth

Abbess of Polesworth

An anchoress and later Abbess of Polesworth in England, in the 9th century.

Feast
July 5old style July 18
Era
9th century
Place
Polesworth
Order
Venerables

Life

Venerable Modwenna of Polesworth was an anchoress and later abbess at Polesworth in Warwickshire, England. The sources do not agree about her age: the Orthodox England calendar places her in the seventh century, other lists in the ninth. Nothing certain survives about her deeds or her repose.

She is not to be confused with Saint Modwenna who succeeded Saint Hilda as Abbess of Whitby and reposed around 695. Both are remembered on 5 July, as saints of the undivided Church (new style, Western calendar).

Commemorated the same day July 5