Ethelreda wa Ely

Ethelreda (pia: Ediltrudis, Editrudis, Audrey; jina asili: Æthelthryth au Æðelþryð au Æþelðryþe; Exning, Suffolk, 636 – Ely, Cambridgeshire, 23 Juni 679) alikuwa mwanamke wa ukoo tawala wa sehemu ya Uingereza aliyeolewa mara mbili na wafalme wa huko kwa sharti la kuachwa bikira.

Mt. Æthelthryth katika mchoro mdogo wa karne ya 10, British Library.

Hatimaye akawa mmonaki na abesi wa monasteri aliyoianzisha huko Ely, alipolea wanawake wengi kwa mfano wake na mashauri yake^[1].

Kama dada zake wote wanne: Etelburga wa Faremoutiers, Vitburga wa Dereham, Seksiburga wa Ely na Setrida wa Faremoutiers anaheshimiwa tangu kale kama mtakatifu.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa na Wakatoliki, Waorthodoksi na Waanglikana tarehe ya kifo chake^[2].

Tazama pia

• Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
• Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

Vyanzo

• Virginia Blanton (2007) Signs of Devotion: the cult of St Aethelthryth in medieval England, 695–1615. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press ISBN 0-271-02984-6^[3]
• McCash, June Hall & Judith Clark Barban, ed. and trans. (2006) The Life of Saint Audrey; a text by Marie de France. Jefferson, NC: McFarland ISBN 0-7864-2653-5
• M. Dockray-Miller (2009) Saints Edith and Æthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience; the Wilton Chronicle and the Wilton Life of St Æthelthryth, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers ISBN 978-2-503-52836-6
• Maccarron, Máirín, "The Adornment of Virgins: Æthelthryth and Her Necklaces," in Elizabeth Mullins and Diarmuid Scully (eds), Listen, O Isles, unto me: Studies in Medieval Word and Image in honour of Jennifer O’Reilly (Cork, 2011), 142–155.
• Major, Tristan, "Saint Etheldreda in the South English Legendary," Anglia 128.1 (2010), 83–101.
• Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, "Rerouting the Dower: The Anglo-Norman Life of St. Audrey by Marie (of Chatteris?)", in Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women, ed. Jennifer Carpenter and Sally-Beth Maclean (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995), 27–56.

Marejeo mengine

• Rosser, Susan (Fall 1997). "Æthelthryth: a Conventional Saint?". Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. 79 (3): 15–24.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link)