Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor.

Edith loved the town and often lived there ; at her death she was buried in the crypt of the Benedictine abbey of Saint Maurice, later rebuilt as the cathedral.

Edith Stein, also Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, informally also known as Saint Edith Stein ( born: October 12, 1891 – died: August 9, 1942 ), was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and nun, regarded as a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church.

* Letter of Saint Edith Stein to Pope Pius XI in 1933

There are several Carmelite figures who have received significant attention in the 20th century, including Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, one of only three female Doctors of the Church, so named because of her famous teaching on the " way of confidence and love " set forth in her best-selling memoir, " Story of a Soul "; Titus Brandsma, a Dutch scholar and writer who was killed in Dachau Concentration Camp because of his stance against Nazism ; and Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ( née Edith Stein ), a Jewish convert to Catholicism who was also imprisoned and died at Auschwitz.

Additional accounts are offered by Goscelin in his life of Edgar's daughter Saint Edith of Wilton, and in the histories of John of Worcester and William of Malmesbury.

The Life of Saint Edward claims that while Godwin was in exile Robert tried to persuade King Edward to divorce Edith, Godwin's daughter, but Edward refused and instead she was sent to a nunnery.

In Tamworth church in 926, a sister of King Æthelstan, perhaps Saint Edith of Polesworth, was married to Sitric Cáech, the squint-eyed Norse King of York and Dublin. Tamworth Castle

Reunion, a radio play, was produced by John Juliani in 1984 for CBC " Saturday Stereo Theatre "; Gregory Sinclair produced The Collaborators for CBC's " Speaking Volumes " in 1989 ; Kathleen Flaherty produced Within the Copper Mountain ( 1997 ), History 605 ( 1998 ), The Masked Man in Warsaw ( 1999 ), Edith Stein: Whose Saint Was She?

William's mother was Matilda ( also called Edith ), the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland by Saint Margaret of Scotland.

Edward was probably the son of Æthelflæd, and Eadgifu, later known as Saint Edith of Wilton, the daughter of Wulfthryth.

Born in Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire ( at that time part of Mercia ), she was the daughter of Frithwald, a sub-king of Mercia in Surrey, and was the niece of Saint Edith and Saint Edburga of Bicester.

Wilton is best known as the home of Saint Edith, the child of a " handfast " union between Edgar, King of the English ( 959-75 ), and Wulfrid or Wulfthryth, a lady wearing the veil though not a nun, whom he carried off from Wilton, probably in 961.

* Saint Wulfthryth ( d. 988 AD ), mother of St. Edith of Wilton, her Feast Day is September 13th.

The 100 years war with France also caused the dedication of the church to be changed to St Edith of Polesworth, a Warwickshire Saint ( the connection with St Denis was revived in the 19th century for the chapel of St Denis, built in the neighbouring village of Pailton ).

* Lester Piggott – Pandofell ( 1961 ), Aunt Edith ( 1966 ), Knockroe ( 1972 ), Bruni ( 1976 ), Bright Finish ( 1977 ), Noble Saint ( 1980 ), Ardross ( 1981, 1982 )

Kemsing was the birthplace, in AD961, of Saint Edith of Wilton, an illegitimate daughter of the Saxon King Edgar I.

Wolfrida was the mother of Saint Edith of Wilton.

* Edith Stein ( Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross )

In the following year he became provisional Principal of the Theological College of Saint Thomas ( from which he had just graduated ), and in 1903 his appointment was made permanent.

Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose ( c. 330 – 4 April 397 ), was an archbishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.

In 982, still not yet thirty years old, Adalbert became the Bishop of Prague .< ref >“ Saint Adalbert of Prague ”.

At the age of twenty-one, he joined the city ’ s Guild of Saint Luke and later became dean.

At his return from Ethiopia, he married Virginie Vincent de Saint Bonnet in 1848, and settled in Hendaye where he purchased 250ha to build his castle, and became the mayor of the city from 1871 to 1875.

The latter title is especially suggestive of his role in forming several Franciscans who later became influential thinkers in the faculty, among them Saint Bonaventure, John of La Rochelle, Odo Rigaldus, William of Middleton and Richard Rufus of Cornwall.

Saint Anthony decided to follow this tradition and headed out into the alkaline Nitrian Desert region ( which became the location of the noted monasteries of Nitria, Kellia and Scetis ), about west of Alexandria, on the edge of the Western Desert.

Tradition asserts that, sometime around 560, he became involved in a quarrel with Saint Finnian of Movilla Abbey over a psalter.

The Book of Saint Albans became very popular during the 16th century and was reprinted frequently.

Saint John became a centre of the timber trade and shipbuilding and is currently a centre for oil refining and some manufacturing.

The college was founded by a group of graduates and professors of the Integral Program at Saint Mary's College of California, who were discouraged by the liberalism that became common place among the faculty and administration on Saint Mary's campus shortly after Vatican II.

There he was invited to head Saint Paul's College, a pioneer seminary for the education of secular priests that became the first jesuit headquarters in Asia, but soon departed, having spent the following three years in India.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, whose feast falls on 20 August, became the Patron Saint of Gibraltar.

Cantor's father had been a member of the Saint Petersburg stock exchange ; when he became ill, the family moved to Germany in 1856, first to Wiesbaden then to Frankfurt, seeking winters milder than those of Saint Petersburg.

Saint Louis also supported new forms of art such as Gothic architecture ; his Sainte-Chapelle became a very famous gothic building, and he is also credited for the Morgan Bible.

Philip III became king when Saint Louis died in 1270 during the Eighth Crusade.

Returning to Gaul, Irenaeus succeeded the martyr Saint Pothinus and became the second Bishop of Lyons.

Saint Jerome ( c. 347 – 30 September 420 ; ( also Hierom or Jerom ) (; ) was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church.

There he became court painter to Ferdinand VI of Spain and director of the Royal Academy of Saint Fernando.

If Daniel's Vita is trustworthy ( and there is nothing against which to judge its accuracy ), then John came to the Vatos Monastery at Mount Sinai, now Saint Catherine's Monastery, and became a novice when he was about 16 years old.

With the advent of European exploration into the area in the late 17th century, Lake Michigan became part of a line of waterways leading from the Saint Lawrence River to the Mississippi River and thence to the Gulf of Mexico.

Their cultural heritage was acquired and developed in medieval Bulgaria, where after 885 the region of Ohrid became a significant ecclesiastical center with the nomination of the Saint Clement of Ohrid for " first archbishop in Bulgarian language " with residence in this region.

At this time, the Westmorland Road became open to year round travel and a regular mail coach service was established between Saint John and Halifax.