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Osyth
female, deceased - Osyth or Osith (died 653 AD) was an English saint. She is primarily commemorated in the village of St. Osyth, Essex, near Colchester. Alternative...
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Frideswide
female, deceased - Saint Frideswide was (according to legend) daughter of King Didan and Safrida. She founded a church near Oxford, but Prince Alfgar of Mercia...
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Brigid Of Kildare
female, deceased - Saint Brigid of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland (fl. 451 – 525) was an Irish Christian nun, abbess, and founder of several convents venerated as sa...
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Winefride
female - Saint Winefride (also called in her native Welsh Gwenfrewy; in modern English Winifred and various variations) was the 7th century daughter of the...
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Laurentia McLachlan
female, deceased - Dame Laurentia McLachlan was born Margaret McLachlan in 1866 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1884 she joined the Benedictine Abbey at...
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Mildrith
female - Saint Mildrith, also Mildryth or Mildred, was an Anglo-Saxon abbess. Mildrith was the daughter of King Merewalh of Magonsaete, a sub-kingdom of...
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Fastrada
female, deceased - Fastrada (765-794) was the daughter of a Saxon count in Lower Saxony. Together with other Saxon women, she allegedly threw herself barebreasted...
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Theodrada
male - Theodrada (b. 784), Abbess of Argenteuil was a daughter of Charlemagne (742-814) and his fourth wife Fastrada. First daughter of Charlemagne...
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Herrad Of Landsberg
female, deceased - Herrad of Landsberg (c.1130 - July 25 1195) was a 12th century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains. She is known as...
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Yim Wing-Chun
female - Yim Wing-chun is a historical character, often cited in Wing Chun legends as the first Wing Chun master. A Shaolin nun and abbess Ng Mui...
