Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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ST/JD/151

Ebbe

Gender
Female
Floruit (period)
None
Floruit date range
? - 683
Description
Æbbe or Ebba. First abbess of Coldingham (Berwickshire), and daughter of Ethelfrith, king of Northumbria. An acquaintance of St Wilfrid and Adomnán of Iona. Died in 683. [The miracles of Saint Æbbe of Coldingham and Saint Margaret of Scotland, ed.& transl. by R. Bartlett (2003).]
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
non-matyr Virgin 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
Northumbrian sub category of Anglo-Saxon - general 100 None
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
11 2 yes Translation of St Ebbe None
8 25 yes St Ebbe None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations