#St. Æthelthryth
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SAINT OF THE DAY (June 23)
St. Æthelthryth, also known as Etheldreda or Audrey, especially in religious contexts, was Queen of Northumbria.
Her father was King Anna of East Anglia.
Her siblings were Wendreda and Seaxburh of Ely, both of whom eventually retired from secular life and founded abbeys.
She was born at around 630 in Exning, near Newmarket in Suffolk.
While still very young, she was given in marriage by her father to Tondberct, chief or prince of the South Gyrwe. He was a subordinate prince who gave her a piece of land locally known as the Isle of Ely.
She managed to persuade her husband to respect her vow of perpetual virginity that she had made prior to their marriage.
Upon his death in 655, she retired to the Isle of Ely, which she had received from Tondberct as a morning gift.
Etheldreda was forced to marry again out political convenience, this time to Ecgfrith, King of Northumbria.
Throughout her 12 years of marriage, she kept her virginity. She gave much of her time to devotion and charity.
St. Wilfrid was her friend and spiritual guide. He helped to persuade her husband that Etheldreda should live for some time in peace as a sister of the Coldingham nunnery, founded by her aunt, St. Ebb.
During this time, she only ate once a day, except on feast days or while she was sick, and wore only clothes made of wool.
After midnight prayers, she would always go back to the church and continue praying until morning.
Etheldreda took pain and humiliation as a blessing.
On her death bed, she thanked God for an illness that had painfully swollen her neck, which she considered to be punishment for having vainly worn necklaces with jewels as a young lady.
She died on 23 June 679. She was buried in a wooden coffin, as she had asked.
When her body was moved to a stone coffin, it was found incorrupt and her neck was perfectly healed, according to physicians.
She is the patron saint of throat and neck complaints.
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"The memory of [Emma of Normandy] was of a generous patron. At Ely an inventory made in 1134 listed her gifts of precious textiles to the church. They included an altar frontal worked in gold and silver with an image of Christ in majesty, seven cloths with gold worked fringes (orfrey) and one of rich purple fabric, perhaps shot silk taffeta (purpura), adorned all round with orfrey work and precious stones, a purpura pall for each saint and each altar, and four woollen dorsals. The twelfth-century Ely monks also recalled a blood red altar cloth with a gold border a foot wide, and the magnificent purpura one worked with orfrey and adorned in a chequer pattern with gold and gems which she made for them, as well as the gold and gem-worked silk cloths for each saint,’ and, richest of all, the cloth she gave to cover the tomb of St Æthelthryth. The twelfth-century Abingdon Chronicler told of the gold and silver shrine she and Cnut had given to the church. It bore an inscription recording the two hundred and ten mancuses of gold and twenty-two pounds of silver which had gone into its construction. At Winchester they remembered her striving with Bishop Ælfwine to adorn the church of St Swithun, a contest which she won.” Canterbury tradition recorded the cup of gold worth 13 marks, two altar cloths, two copes with gold tassels, and a golden ornamented text which Emma had given.
Canterbury was not the only church to which Emma gave books. She sent an English psalter to her brother Robert, Archbishop of Rouen. She and Cnut have been associated with a lively production of de luxe manuscripts in the third decade of the eleventh century, most of which were intended as gifts for English and foreign churches or individuals. Gifts of manuscripts linked Emma and Cnut with such English churches as York, Canterbury, London, New Minster and Bury, and with cross- Channel recipients in Germany, Scandinavia and France. Peterborough, with its strong ties to queens in general and Emma in particular, was a major centre of this production. Wulfstan of Worcester remembered how a skilled scribe and painter of manuscripts who had taught him there as a boy gave Emma and Cnut a psalter, which eventually ended up in Germany. Ervenius was the scribe who taught Wulfstan. He is the same Earnwig who followed Emma’s close associate Ælfsige as abbot of Peterborough.
Emma was an acquirer of relics, and her acquisitions were almost invariably followed by their distribution. When the bishop of Benevento visited England in Cnut’s reign, Emma bought from him the body of St Bartholomew, which he happened to have with him; she gave most of it to Christ Church Canterbury, though retaining the arm for herself. Whilst staying in Rouen after the death of Æthelred she bought the body of St Ouen, which she again split on her return to England, this time keeping the head for herself and giving the body to Canterbury. New Minster was thus particularly favoured by her gift of the head of St Valentinus. A queen’s gifts were much sought after, and sometimes the process of giving was shortcircuited. Emma kept the head of St Ouen; after her disgrace, her goldsmith purloined it from her reliquary and gave it to Malmesbury where his brother was a monk.
Sherborne attracted her largesse in a more standard way. According to Goscelin writing c. 1100, she and Cnut came to visit St Wulfsige’s shrine at Sherborne. There the king pointed out to her the poor state of the church; the poverty of the angelic citizen Wulfsige was an accusation of them, weighed down as they were by gold and jewelled ornament.” It was up to her to repair it. She gave twenty pounds’ worth of silver for the repair of the roof. Sherborne is a rare instance of Emma as a patron of buildings. She may have contributed more than general support and intercession to the development of Bury and St Benet Holme.’ But according to the surviving sources her most generous building patronage was far away in western France where the rebuilding of St Hilaire at Poitiers was in ‘large part paid for by the queen of the English'.
The patronage of both Emma and [her daughter-in-law Edith also included] land. Emma gave Newington to Christ Church, acquiring it from Cnut after Ælfric forfeited it; she bequeathed land at Kirby to Bury, and together with Harthacnut gave land to Ramsey for the soul of Cnut. Edith was remembered as a benefactor of Wells, granting Milverton and Mark to bishop Giso. Emma almost certainly made gifts of land to the Old Minster, Winchester, where she and Cnut were buried: her son Edward confirmed her grant of the urban property of Godebegot in Winchester to the Old Minster, and after 1066 the Old Minster claimed that she had left them land at Hayling Island in reversion, after the death of her servant Wulfweard the White."
-Pauline Stafford, Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England
#Emma of Normandy#11th century#anglo-saxons#historicwomendaily#my post#cnut the great#I *love* Emma of Normandy I can't believe I forgot about all these posts about her in my drafts 🤡#women in history
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I’m reading a thread of interesting word etymologies, and here are my favorites:
The etymology of "tawdry" is a real ride.
There was a 7th century Anglo-Saxon saint named Æthelthryth. Now, nobody, not even 7th century Anglo-Saxons, wants to go around trying to pronounce that dense forest of th's, so she was commonly known as St. Etheldreda, and later, linguistically lazier people called her St. Audrey.
St. Audrey was the patron saint of a town called Ely, and the folks of Ely held a fair every year in her name. One of the primary products on offer at these fairs was lace. "St. Audrey's lace" was said a few too many times, and got slurred down to "tawdry lace."
Over time, the lace fell out of favor. It was mainly made by peasant women, and thus viewed as cheap, and the Puritans looked down on lace garments of any kind as ostentatious. "Tawdry" then began to be used to describe other things that were cheap and ostentatious, and the modern definition of the word was born.
tl;dr: "Tawdry" comes from the fact that Æthelthryth is really hard to pronounce.
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The word "quintessential" has one of my favorite etymologies.
You can break it down into "quint" and "essential." Quint as in "five." "Essential" as in "essence," or "element." To be quintessential is to be the fifth element of something. To be the thing's *spirit*.
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Etymology of the word clue: The word clue originates with the myth of Theseus, who used a ball of yarn to find his way back out of the minotaur's labyrinth. The middle English word for a ball of yarn was clew (or clewe); when the myth was popularized in England by Chaucer, people started using the word clew figuratively to mean a hint or guide to solving a problem.
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The phrase "hands down" comes from horseracing and refers to a jockey who is so far ahead that he can afford drop his hands and loosen the reins (usually kept tight to encourage a horse to run) and still easily win.
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170 days until submission (perhaps)
running, planning, praying to st Æthelthryth (one sore throat in the house)
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Æthelthryth (a.k.a. Ethelreda or Audry) of Ely (Christian; Saint)
Agrippina (Christian; Saint)
Ancient Druidic Midsummer Baal
Anubis Ceremony (Ancient Egypt)
Baldur’s Day (Pagan)
Bob Marley Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Don John of Austria (Positivist; Saint)
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Marie (a.k.a. Mary) of Oignies (Christian; Saint)
Parrot Pondering Day (Pastafarian)
Rousalii (Celebrating the Romanian Goddesses)
St. John's Eve [and 1st Day of Midsummer celebrations] (a.k.a. ...
Bonfires St. John's (Spain)
Drăgaica Fair ends (Buzău, Romania)
Festa de São João do Porto begins (Porto)
Golowan Festival begins (Cornwall, UK)
Jaaniõhtu (Estonia)
Jāņi (Latvia)
Kupala Night (Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
Līgo (Latvia)
Midsummer Eve (Denmark, Finland, Sweden)
Noc Świętojańska (Poland)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Premieres
Alice Gets Stage Struck (Disney Cartoon; 1925)
Batman (Film; 1989)
The Bear (TV Series; 2022)
Beaucoups of Blues, recorded by Ringo Starr (Song; 1970)
Buddy’s Bearcats (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)
The Big Sick (Film; 2017)
Carolina, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2022)
Chain of Fools, recorded by Aretha Franklin (Song; 1967)
Chicken Run (Animated Aardman Film; 2000)
Click (Film; 2006)
Coming Home, by Leon Bridges (Album; 2015)
Copacabana (UK Musical Play; 1994)
The Devil Went Down to Georgia, by Charlie Daniels (Song; 1979)
Dope, by BTS (Song; 2015)
Emotional Rescue, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1980)
The Enchanted Tiki Room (Disneyland Attraction; 1963)
GLOW (TV Series; 2017)
The Happiest Millionaire (Film; 1967
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Film; 1989)
The House with a Clock in Its Walls, by John Bellairs (Mystery Novel; 1973)
Kelly’s Heroes (Film; 1970)
Knight and Day (Film; 2010)
The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1971)
Murder by Death (Film; 1976)
My Sharona, by The Knack (Song;1978)
No Hard Feelings (Film; 2023)
Octopussy and the Living Daylights, by Ian Fleming (Short Story Collection; 1959) [James Bond #14]
Old (Film; 2021)
Pocahontas (Animated Disney Film; 1995)
Red Octopus, by Jefferson Starship (Album; 1975)
A Shot in the Dark (Film; 1964)
Suits (TV Series; 2011)
Sweet Caroline, by Neil Diamond (Song; 1969)
The Tracks of My Tears, by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (Song; 1965)
Tugboat Granny (WB MM Cartoon; 1956)
Tummy Trouble (Roger Rabbit Cartoon; 1989)
Von Ryan’s Express (Film; 1965)
Wilfred (TV Series; 2011)
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Edeltraud, Marion, Ortrud (Austria)
Josip, Marija (Croatia)
Zdeňka (Czech Republic)
Paulinus (Denmark)
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Audrey (France)
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Zoltán (Hungary)
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Hebrew: 4 Tammuz 5783
Islamic: 4 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444
J Cal: 24 Sol; Threesday [24 of 30]
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Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 14 of 15]
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doing old english grammar exercises and I'm literally like "shit I know exactly where that sentence is from it's from the life of st æthelthryth, the bit where the monks went to find some stone for her tomb! haha good times"
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June 23 - Feast Day of St. Æthelthryth (Audrey)
Æthelthryth (636-679) was a princess of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia and later queen consort of Northumbria. She had no wish to be married, wanting to become a nun. She kept her vow of virginity through two marriages, fleeing from her second husband, the king, to a nunnery. She became an abbess, then a saint, as did all three of her sisters in turn.
(Image from the 10th century Benedictional of St. Æthelwold)
#On this day#What day is it shhh#Anglo-Saxons#Manuscript#There were a lot more saints back in the day#Everyone and their sister was a saint
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Requiescat in pace, Æthelthryth. An East Anglian princess, Northumbrian and Fenland queen, first Abbess of Ely, and now a saint venerated in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox churches, she is said to have founded a double monastery at Ely in 673 (which building was later destroyed during the Danish Invasion in 870), the present construction (built in 1083) of which is highlighted in the above stamps. For this stamp enthusiast’s fellow lexicographer friends, in the Common Tongue Æthelthryth was known as St. Audrey, which gave us the word tawdry--Æthelthryth’s followers were known for the lace goods they would purchase: St. Audrey lace = tawdry lace = tawdry, for by the 17th Century, the lacework was seen as old-fashioned and/or of cheap quality. Ouch. Æthelthryth died on this date in 679, probably in her early 40s.
Stamp details:
Issued on: November 14, 1989
From: London, England
MC #1235-1239
#Æthelthryth#Æþelðryþe#Etheldreda#st. audrey#Saint Etheldreda#Saint Æthelthryth#Ely Cathedral#stamps#philately#june 23#royal mail#anglo-saxon#tawdry lace#tawdry#st. audrey lace
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Today is the feast day o Anglo Saxon Saint - Ætheldreda (Æthelthryth) or St Audrey. 636 – 23 June 679 AD. Seen here in the Benedictional of St Æthelwold (f.90)
She founded a double monastery in Ely in 673 - now the site of one the most beautiful cathedrals in the world - Ely Cathedral, The Ship of the Fens.
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June 23: Today's Specialities: United Nations Public Service Day & International Widows Day When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. Christian feast day: Æthelthryth Marie of Oignies Joseph Cafasso June 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Earliest day on which Feast of Raḥmat can fall, while June 24 is the latest. (Bahá'í Faith) Father's Day (Nicaragua, Poland) Grand Duke's Official Birthday (Luxembourg) International Widows Day (international) National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada) Okinawa Memorial Day (Okinawa Prefecture) St John's Eve and the first day of the Midsummer celebrations [although this is not the real summer solstice; see June 20] (Roman Catholic Church, Europe): Bonfires of Saint John (Spain) First night of Festa de São João do Porto (Porto) First day of Golowan Festival (Cornwall) Jaaniõhtu (Estonia) Jāņi (Latvia) Kupala Night (Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine) Last day of Drăgaica fair (Buzău, Romania) United Nations Public Service Day (International) Victory Day (Estonia) #FathersDay #Nicaragua #Poland #GrandDukesBirthday #Luxembourg #InternationalWidowsDay #WidowsDay #Widow #NationalDayofRemembranceforVictimsofTerrorism #Canada #OkinawaMemorialDay #Okinawa #Prefecture #StJohnsEve #Europe #BonfiresofSaintJohn #Spain #SãoJoãodoPorto #Porto #Cornwall #JaaniõhtuEstonia #JāņiLatvia #KupalaNight #Belarus #Lithuania #Russia #Ukraine #PublicServiceDay #InternationalPublicServiceDay #PublicService
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Happy St. Æthelthryth's Day. Here is throat medicine for throat/neck pain #oldenglish #ealdenglisc #englisc #stetheldreda #anglosaxon
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Holidays 6.23
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Ancient Druidic Midsummer Baal
Anubis Ceremony (Ancient Egypt)
Coast Guard Auxiliary Day (US)
Cosmic Patience Day
Dancing Day (Elder Scrolls)
Dandruff Dance Day
Father’s Day (Nicaragua, Poland)
Festival of the Purple Void
Grand Duke's Official Birthday (Luxembourg)
Guru Rinpoche Day (Bhutan)
International Olympic Day
International Widows Day (UN)
Jorė (Ancient Latvian Festival to Thundergod Perkūnas)
Jurassic Plebiscite Commemoration (Jura, Switzerland)
Kupala (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Let It Go Day
National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada)
National Family Owned and Operated Businesses Day
National Hydration Day
National Pecan Sandies Day
National Pink Day
Okinawa Memorial Day
Pink Flamingo Day
Poop Out Early Day
Public Service Day (UN)
Runner’s Selfie Day
SAT Math Day
St. John's Eve [and 1st Day of Midsummer celebrations] (a.k.a. ...
Bonfires St. John's (Spain)
Drăgaica Fair ends (Buzău, Romania)
Festa de São João do Porto begins (Porto)
Golowan Festival begins (Cornwall, UK)
Jaaniõhtu (Estonia)
Jāņi (Latvia)
Kupala Night (Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
Ligo (Latvia)
Midsummer Eve (Denmark, Sweden)
Tiki Tiki Tiki Day
Triumph Over Adversity Day
Typewriting Day
United Nations Public Service Day
Voidupuha (a.k.a. Victory Day, Estonia)
Zamboni Day
Christian Feast Days
Æthelthryth (a.k.a. Ethelreda or Audry) of Ely
Agrippina
Joseph Cafasso
Marie (a.k.a. Mary) of Oignies
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