Wilgyth of Cholsey

Saint Wilgyth of Cholsey was an Anglo-⁠Saxon nun of the sixth century, venerated locally in Berkshire in England. Little is known of her, from the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript and from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Tradition gives as her relatives a stepbrother, Bana, founder of a monastery at Le Relecq-⁠Kerhuon in France, and sisters, Saints Juthwara and Sidwell. If she was a sister of Saint Paul Aurelian, she was a daughter of a chieftain named Perphirius from Penychen in Glamorgan. Legend says that her mother died while she was young and that, after her father's death, two of her sisters were murdered by their stepmother. She is venerated in Orthodoxy, in the Roman Catholic Church and in the Anglican Church, as a saint of the undivided Church.