Martyr
Tova of Thorney
An Anglo-Saxon martyr honored at Thorney, martyred in 869, commemorated in the Orthodox England calendar.
- Feast
- September 30old style October 13
- Reposed
- 8699th century
- Place
- Thorney
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Tova of Thorney was an anchoress at Thorney in the east of England in the ninth century, sister of the hermits Tancred and Torthred. They were slain by the Danes in the year 869.
She is commemorated on 30 September (new style), together with them, at Thorney and at Deeping, as a saint of the undivided Church.
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