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- Modwenna, or Modwen, was a nun and saint in England, who founded Burton Abbey in Staffordshire in the 7th century. According to the medieval Life of St...
- was safe with Modwenna who was not expecting her visit. On the third day, Edith, wondering that her pupil had not returned, went to Modwenna. The abbesses...
- 1964) The Honorable Thomas Fletcher Rees-Mogg (born 1966), who married Modwenna Northcote in 1996. The couple have four children. The Right Honorable Sir...
- Monenna results from a later confusion of early Christian figures, including Modwenna and Moninne. The first record of Stirling Castle dates from around 1110...
- story that, in his childhood, he was sent to Ireland to be healed by Saint Modwenna may show Alfred's interest in that island. In the 880s, at the same time...
- Saint Moninne or Modwenna of Killeavy was one of Ireland's early female saints. After instruction in the religious life, she founded a community, initially...
- Staffordshire, England, was founded in the 7th or 9th century by St Modwen or Modwenna. It was refounded in 1003 as a Benedictine abbey by the thegn Wulfric Spott...
- to St Andrew. The island is ****ociated with the legend of St Modwen or Modwenna, an Irish abbess. It is likely that any surviving religious house would...
- the head of Burton Abbey, the Benedictine monastery of St Mary and St Modwenna at Burton-upon-Trent in Staffordshire, England. Allegedly the church was...
- light on traditions surrounding St Edith is Conchubran's Life of Saint Modwenna, a female hermit who supposedly lived near Burton-on-Trent. The text, written...