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St. Sexburga
Died about 699. Her sisters, Sts. Ethelburga and Saethrid, were both Abbesses
of Faremontier in Brie, St. Withburga was a nun at Ely, and St. Etheldreda
became Abbess of Ely. Sexburga was the daughter of Anna, King of the East Angles,
and was married about 640 to Earconbert, King of Kent. She lived with her
husband for twenty-four years, and by him had two sons, Egbert and Lothar, both
successively Kings of Kent, and two daughters, both of whom became nuns and
saints: St. Earcongota, a nun of Faremontier, and St. Ermenhild, who married
Wulfhere, King of Mercia, and after his death took the veil and became Abbess of
Ely. After the death of her husband in 664, Sexburga founded the Abbey of
Minster in Sheppey; after a few years there she removed to Ely and placed
herself under her sister Etheldreda, then abbess. The Liber Eliensis
contains
the farewell speech made by Sexburga to her nuns at Minster, and an account of
her reception at Ely. St. Etheldreda died, probably in 679, and Sexburga was
elected abbess. She was still alive and acting as abbess in 695, when she
presided at the translation of St. Etheldreda's relics to a new shrine she had
erected for her at Ely, which included a sarcophagus of white marble from the
ruined city of Grantchester. Sexburga was buried at Ely, near her sister St.
Etheldreda and her feast is kept on 6 July. There are several lives of St.
Sexburga extant. The one printed in Capgrave, Nova, Legenda
and used by the
Bollandists seems to be taken from the Cotton manuscript (Tib. E. 1) in the
British Museum. There is another Latin life in the same collection (Cotton MS.,
Calig. A. 8), but it is so damaged by fire that it is useless. At Lambeth there
are fragments of an Anglo-Saxon life (MS. 427).
BEDE, Hist. Eccl., iii, c. 8; IV, cc. 19, 21; Liber Eliensis in Anglo. Chr. Soc.; Acta SS., July, II, 346-9; MONTALEMBERT, Monks of the West, ed. GASQUET, iv, 401; HARDY, Cat. Mat. in R. S., I, 36O-2; BUTLER, Lives of the Saints. 6 July.
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