Venerable Martyr
Tancred of Thorney
A hermit of Thorney in England who suffered a martyr's death.
- Feast
- September 30old style October 13
- Reposed
- 8699th century
- Place
- Thorney
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Saint Tancred of Thorney was a hermit of Thorney in England, put to death by the Danes around 869. With him were slain another hermit, Torthred, and an anchoress, Tova. They are commemorated on 30 September, as saints of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details of their lives.
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