Roman Catholic Saint. She was the daughter of the early Anglo-Saxon king Merewald of Magnoset and was educated in France at the abbey at Chelles. While there, the abbess tried to persuade her to marry a young nobleman, but she refused. After threats and violence failed, the abbess was said to have locked her inside a blazing oven, but when it was opened after three hours Mildred was miraculously unharmed. After this event she was venerated as a saint, but the abbess' continued abuse forced her to flee to England. When she landed at Ebbsfleet, Kent, she discovered a stone to step safely ashore upon, this was later taken to the abbey of Minster-in-Thanet as a relic and was said to have the power to cure disease. She then became a nun at Minster-in-Thanet and was made abbess upon the death of St Ermenburga. Mildred died at the abbey in AD 732 after a long illness, and in 1033 her remains were transferred to a shrine in St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. Her saint's day is July 14th and she is said to protect against damage by geese.
Roman Catholic Saint. She was the daughter of the early Anglo-Saxon king Merewald of Magnoset and was educated in France at the abbey at Chelles. While there, the abbess tried to persuade her to marry a young nobleman, but she refused. After threats and violence failed, the abbess was said to have locked her inside a blazing oven, but when it was opened after three hours Mildred was miraculously unharmed. After this event she was venerated as a saint, but the abbess' continued abuse forced her to flee to England. When she landed at Ebbsfleet, Kent, she discovered a stone to step safely ashore upon, this was later taken to the abbey of Minster-in-Thanet as a relic and was said to have the power to cure disease. She then became a nun at Minster-in-Thanet and was made abbess upon the death of St Ermenburga. Mildred died at the abbey in AD 732 after a long illness, and in 1033 her remains were transferred to a shrine in St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. Her saint's day is July 14th and she is said to protect against damage by geese.
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