There were two early English saints with this name , one of Bicester and one of Winchester

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St Edburga

Celebrated on July 18th

St Edburga of Bicester

St Edburga of Bicester died around 650. She was a nun and probably an abbess. The base of a shrine dedicated to her can still be seen in the church at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire.

Her namesake, St Edburga of Winchester, lived 300 years later.

She was a daughter of Edward the Elder, King of Wessex and grand daughter of King Alfred the Great. She became a nun at the Abbey of St Mary’s in Winchester and was known for her gentle and kind nature. A cult formed around her after her death, celebrated particularly in Wessex and Westminster. Pilgrims flocked to her shrine at Pershore Abbey until the Reformation.
(from ICN)

 

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Both St. Edburgas, pray for us!

I love ICN bringing these obscure saints from the British Isles to our attention. We never hear about them in USA as they aren’t on our calendar here.

Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis here. He was born when his mother was almost 60 years old (!) He developed an incurable wound on his foot and was eventually put in the hospital for incurables, where he ended up reforming the whole hospital. He is now the patron of hospitals and of sisters who care for the sick.
St. Camillus, pray for us.

Thursday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis (USA) - July 18, 2019 - Liturgical Calendar

St. Camillus, entirely without means of existence and from his early youth suffering from an incurable wound in his foot, experienced the horrors of the Roman hospitals in the sixteenth century in which the nursing and other staff were drawn from the dregs of the population. He effected a great

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