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Venerable

Tetta of Wimborne

Abbess of Wimborne

Abbess of the monastery of Wimborne in England, who reposed around 772.

Feast
September 28old style October 11
Reposed
7728th century
Place
Wimborne

Life

Saint Tetta of Wimborne was abbess of Wimborne in Dorset in England, and she reposed around 772. She helped Saint Boniface by sending him nuns from her convent of five hundred sisters, among whom were Saints Lioba and Thecla. She is commemorated on 28 September, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day September 28