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650–751 · Medieval · Nuns of the order of Saint Benedict

Saint Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet (also known as Eadburh and Bugga) was a princess of Wessex, and abbess of Minster-in-Thanet. She is regarded as a saint. Edburga was the only daughter of King Centwine and Queen Engyth of Wessex.

600 · Medieval

Saint Edeyrn (c. 6th century) was a pre-congregational saint of Wales, related to Vortigern and the royal house of Powys and the brother of Saint Aerdeyrn and Elldeyrn.

944–975 · Medieval

Edgar (or Eadgar; c. 944 – 8 July 975), also known as Edgar the Peacemaker and the Peaceable, was King of the English from 959 until his death in 975. He became king of all England on his brother Eadwig's death.

60 · Early Church

Saint Edistus (Italian: Sant'Edisto) (also known as Aristus, Orestes, Horestes) is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

950 · Medieval

Saint Edith of Tamworth was an English religious figure from the mid-10th century. Edith was the eldest daughter from the first marriage of King Edward the Elder and Egwina. She was the sister of Athelstan of England.

650 · Medieval

Eadgyth of Aylesbury also known as Eadridus was a Dark Ages Catholic saint from Anglo-Saxon England. She is known to history mainly through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript, but also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle One of her sisters was Eadburh of Bicester; the other, Wilbur…

850–960 · Medieval

Saint Edith of Polesworth (also known as Editha or Eadgyth; died ?c. 960s) was an Anglo-Saxon abbess venerated in the Kingdom of Mercia. She is traditionally associated with Polesworth Abbey in Warwickshire and the royal center of Tamworth in Staffordshire.

961–984 · Medieval · Benedictines

Edith of Wilton (c. 961 – c. 984) was an English saint, nun and member of the community at Wilton Abbey, and the daughter of Edgar, King of England (r. 959–975) and Saint Wulfthryth.

1585–1628 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Edmund Arrowsmith, SJ (c. 1585 – 28 August 1628) was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales of the Catholic Church. The main source of information on Arrowsmith is a contemporary account written by an eyewitness and published a short time after his death.

1540–1581 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Edmund Campion, SJ (25 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters.

1567–1591 · Reformation

Edmund Gennings (1567 – 10 December 1591), was an English martyr, who was executed during the English Reformation for being a Roman Catholic priest. He came from Lichfield, Staffordshire. Gennings was born at Lichfield in 1567.

920–946 · Medieval

Edmund I or Eadmund I (920/921 – 26 May 946) was King of the English from 27 October 939 until his death in 946. He was the elder son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife, Queen Eadgifu, and a grandson of King Alfred the Great.

1174–1240 · Medieval

Edmund of Abingdon (also known as Edmund Rich, St Edmund of Canterbury, Edmund of Pontigny, French: St Edme; c. 1174 – 1240) was an English Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Canterbury.

1100–1100 · Medieval · Benedictines

Edmund or Etmond mac Maíl Coluim (c. 1070 – after 1097) was a son of Malcolm III of Scotland and his second wife, Margaret of Wessex. He may be found on some lists of Scottish kings, but there is no evidence that he was king.

841–869 · Medieval

Edmund the Martyr (also known as St Edmund or Edmund of East Anglia, died 20 November 869) was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death.

1066 · Medieval

Edward the Confessor (1003/1005 – 5 January 1066) was King of the English from 1042 until his death in 1066. He was the last reigning monarch of the House of Wessex. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy.

963–978 · Medieval

Edward the Martyr (c. 962 – 18 March 978) was King of the English from 8 July 975 until he was killed in 978. He was the eldest son of King Edgar (r. 959–975).

586–633 · Medieval

Edwin (Old English: Ēadwine; c. 586 – 12 October 632/633), also known as Eadwine or Æduinus, was the King of Deira and Bernicia – which later became known as Northumbria – from around 616 until his death.

448 · Early Church

Saint Efflamm is a semi-legendary penitent who was born in Britain and who died in Brittany. His feast is 6 November. According to a late tradition forged by the Treguier scriptorium in the 11th century to legitimize the origins of the monastery of Tréguier and the ecclesiastica…

500 · Medieval

Saint Efrddyl was born in 500 in Ergyng, Wales. She was the daughter of Peibio Clafrog.

1875–1918 · Contemporary

Ephrem is a masculine given name, a variant spelling of Ephraim (also spelled Efrem, Efreom, Ephraem, Efren or Efrén). It is the name of biblical Ephraim, a son of Joseph and ancestor of the Tribe of Ephraim.

1729–1812 · Modern · Franciscans

Egidio Maria of Saint Joseph (16 November 1729 – 7 February 1812) - born Francesco Pontillo - was an Italian professed religious of the Order of Friars Minor.

1000 · Medieval

Egidio da Sansepolcro was a religious figure who died in 1000. He is recognized as a saint.

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Saint Egwad was a 7th-century Catholic bishop and Saint of Wales. He built a church at Ystrad Tywi. He is the Patron Saint of Llanegwad, Wales, and in the Middle Ages there was a festival at this town, in his honour.

700–718 · Medieval · Benedictines

Egwin of Evesham (died 30 December 717) was a Benedictine monk and, later, the third Bishop of Worcester in England. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Saint Eigion was a Welsh saint. He is the brother of Saint Cynidr. The church at Llanigon was probably originally dedicated to him.

401 · Early Church

Saint Eigron was a pre-congregational saint of medieval South Wales. He was the brother of Saint Gwenafwy whom he travelled to Cornwall with, a brother to Gildas and a son of Caw of Strathclyde. He was the Patron Saint of Llanigon, Wales and founded a Church in Cernyw.

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Saint Eilibh was born in Gaelic Ireland. She is a Catholic saint.

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500–500 · Medieval

Eithne is a female personal name of Irish origin, meaning "kernel" or "grain". Other spellings and earlier forms include Ethnea, Ethlend, Ethnen, Ethlenn, Ethnenn, Eithene, Ethne, Aithne, Enya, Ena, Edna, Etney, Eithnenn, Eithlenn, Eithna, Ethni, Edlend, Edlenn.

1548–1609 · Reformation

Ekanātha was a writer born in 1548 and who died in 1609. He is venerated as a saint.

1875–1938 · Contemporary

Ekaterina Dmitrievna Dekalina (Ekaterina of Simbirsk; November 1875, Panskaya Sloboda village, Simbirsk Uyezd, Simbirsk Governorate — February 17, 1938, Ulyanovsk) was an Orthodox saint and a nun at the Spassky Convent in Simbirsk from 1890 to 1918.

1901–1927 · Contemporary

Saint Ekaterina Ruti was born in Mandra in 1901 and died in Athens in 1927. She is buried at the Panagia Pefkovounogiatrissa Monastery.

1892–1938 · Contemporary

Ekaterina Mikhailovna Cherkasova (December 4, 1892, Kashino, Volokolamsk Uyezd, Moscow Governorate — February 5, 1938, Butovo firing range) was a novice and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a venerable martyr in 2001 for universal church veneration.

1533–1599 · Reformation

Eknath (IAST: Eka-nātha, Marathi pronunciation: [eknath]) (c. 1533 – c. 1599), pronunciation was an Indian Hindu Vaishnava saint, philosopher and poet. He was a devotee of Vitthal, a Hindu deity. He is a major figure of the Warkari tradition.

1863–1953 · Contemporary

Ekvtime Takaishvili (sometimes anglicised as Euthymius Takaishvili, also spelled Taqaishvili, Georgian: ექვთიმე თაყაიშვილი; 3 January 1862 – 21 February 1953) was a Georgian historian, archaeologist, public benefactor and Eastern Orthodox saint.

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Elaeth (sometimes recorded as Eleth) was a Christian king and poet in Britain in the 6th century who is venerated as a saint. After losing his territory in the north of Britain, he retreated to Anglesey, north Wales, where he lived at a monastery run by St Seiriol at Penmon.

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Elafius, alternately Elaphus and Elasius, was recorded as a British figure of the fifth century AD. Elafius is the name used by Bede, while the best texts of Constantius of Lyon record the name as Elaphus and Elafus and the father of the first king of wessex Cerdic.

1924–1994 · Contemporary

Saint Paisios of Mount Athos ; 7 August [O.S. 25 July] 1924 – 12 July 1994) was a Greek Eastern Orthodox ascetic from Mount Athos, originally from Pharasa, Cappadocia.

1914–2003 · Contemporary

Thaddeus of Vitovnica (Serbian: Тадеј Витовнички, romanized: Tadej Vitovnički; born Tomislav Štrbulović, 10 October 1914 – 13 April 2003), also known as Elder Thaddeus (Serbian: Старац Тадеј, romanized: Starac Tadej) was a Serbian Orthodox archimandrite, starets and author, most…

1223–1291 · Medieval · Benedictines

Eleanor of Provence (c. 1223 – 24/25 June 1291) was a Provençal noblewoman who became Queen of England as the wife of King Henry III from 1236 until his death in 1272. She served as regent of England during the absence of her spouse in France in 1253.

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Electran I served as the bishop of Rennes. He is recognized as a saint.

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Saint Electranne served as a bishop. He is recognized as a saint.

340–420 · Early Church

Saint Elen (Welsh: Elen Luyddog, lit. "Helen of the Hosts"), often anglicized as Helen, was a late 4th-century founder of churches in Wales. Although never formally canonized by Rome, Elen is traditionally considered a saint in the Welsh Church; in English she is sometimes known…

1805–1832 · Modern

Helena of Diveyevo, born Elena Vasilyevna Manturova, was an Orthodox Christian monastic saint. She came from a noble family. At the age of seventeen, having previously been a person of little religious faith, she experienced a sudden conversion and made a private vow to the Mothe…

1820 · Modern

Saint Elena di Arzamas died in 1820. She is recognized as a saint.

509–530 · Medieval

Elena Consalvo (c. 509, Laurino – 530, Pruno) was a virgin anchorite and is the patron saint of Laurino. Although she is venerated in her hometown on May 22, the Roman Martyrology commemorates her on April 20.

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Saint Helenus, also known as Helenius or Helenus of Alexandria (fl. 3rd century), was the first bishop of Alexandria in Cilicia from the second half of the 2nd century until his death. He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1895–1943 · Contemporary

Eleonora Aniela Jóźwik, Sister Maria Daniela of Jesus and Mary Immaculate (born January 25, 1895, in Poizdów near Kock; died August 1, 1943, near Nowogródek), was a Polish religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and a blessed of the Cath…

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Gwytherin is a village in Conwy County Borough, Wales. It lies in a small valley through which the River Cledwen flows and has been winner of 'Best Kept Village' on four occasions. Its church is dedicated to Saint Winefrid (Welsh: Gwenfrewy gwenfrewi; Medieval Latin: Winefrida).