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ST ETHELBURGA - #Oct11
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1. St Ethelburga [Ethelburge, Edilburge] was an English Saxon princess, sister to St Erconwald, bishop of London. To the end that she might live entirely to God, she in her youth renounced the world
#StEthelburga #England #history #Christian
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1. St Ethelburga [Ethelburge, Edilburge] was an English Saxon princess, sister to St Erconwald, bishop of London. To the end that she might live entirely to God, she in her youth renounced the world
#StEthelburga #England #history #Christian
2. and neither riches nor the tempting splendour of a court could shake her resolution; for the world loses all its influence upon a mind which is wholly taken up with the great truths of faith and eternal salvation.
St Erconwald considered only the perfection of his sister’s
St Erconwald considered only the perfection of his sister’s
3. virtue, not flesh and blood, when he appointed her abbess of the nunnery which he founded at Barking in Essex. Ethelburge, by her example and spirit, sweetly led on all the chaste spouses of Christ in that numerous house in the paths of true virtue and Christian perfection.
