ST. BROCCAIDH, OF IMLEACH-BROCCADHA, NOW EMLAGH, COUNTY OF ROSCOMMON.
[FIFTH CENTURY.]
Sainte EVERILDE (AVERIL, EVERILDIS), fille d'un roi
anglo-saxon, moniale à Everingham dans le Yorkshire (vers 700).
Commemorated on July 9
St. Everilda (also spelled Everildis, Everild, Averil) of Everingham was a Saxon saint in the seventh century who was born into the Wessex nobility
In 635, she was converted to Christianity by St. Birinus, along with King Cynegils of Wessex. While still a young girl, she fled from home to become a nun, and was joined by Sts. Bega and Wuldreda.
St. Wilfrid of York made them all nuns at a place called the Bishop’s Farm, later known as Everildisham. This place has been identified with present-day Everingham.
St. Everilda eventually became abbess of a monastery where she gathered some eighty women.
She fell peacefully asleep in the Lord in 700.
By permission of www.orthodoxeurope.org
Saint Everild of Everingham (Old English: Eoforhild)[1] was an Anglo-Saxon saint of the 7th century who founded a convent at Everingham, in the English county of the East Riding of Yorkshire. All we know of her comes from the York Breviary.[2]
There are two churches dedicated to St Everilda - Nether Poppleton and Everingham.
She was converted to Christianity by Saint Birinus, along with King Cynegils of Wessex, in 635. Her legend in the York Breviary states that she was of the Wessex nobility. She fled from home to become a nun, and was joined by Saints Bega and Wuldreda. Saint Wilfrid of York made them all nuns at a place called the Bishop's Dwelling, later known as Everildisham. This place has been identified with present-day Everingham. She gathered a large community of some eighty women.
St. Condmac or Connmach, of Ath-Blair, or Átha-Silain.
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