| SHE built there a new church in honour of SS. Peter and Paul, into which she caused the body of St. Mildrede, her immediate predecessor, to be translated. Her death happened about the year 751, according to Thorne, quoted in the Monasticon. 1 St. Eadburge seems to be the abbess of that name to whom St. Boniface sometimes wrote. Capgrave confounds her with St. Ethelburge (daughter of Ethelbert, king of Kent), who, after the death of King Edwin, her husband, consecrated herself to God, and died abbess of Lyming, in Kent, towards the close of the seventh century. The relics of St. Eadburge were translated to Canterbury, in 1055, and there deposited in St. Gregory’s church. St. Mildrede is honoured on the 20th of February. | 1 |
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