Saint

Cissa of Crowland
Abbot of Crowland
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Major shrineThorney Abbey
Feast23 September[1]

Cissa of Crowland was a saint in the medieval Fenlands. He was the successor of Guthlac as abbot of Crowland, and is mentioned in Felix' Vita Guthlaci.[2] According to the Crowland Chronicle his tomb was next to Guthlac's, and like the tomb of Guthlac, was destroyed by the Scandinavians.[2] His relics were translated to Thorney Abbey in the 10th-century.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ "Saint Cissa of Northumbria". 5 July 2012.
  2. ^ a b c Blair, "Handlist", p. 521

References

  • Blair, John (2002), "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints", in Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard (eds.), Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 495–565, ISBN 0-19-820394-2

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Saints of Anglo-Saxon England
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