Saints celebrated on the 4th of May
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| A page of one of Fortunatus Hueber's Saints' books, "Stammenbuch..." (1693) |
Ethelred (Æthelred, Ælred) (Ethelredus), king of the Mercians, resigned his reign after 29 years. He went on to prepare for a happy eternity by becoming a monk and died as such after 13 years (in A.D. 716). He never seems to have enjoyed public veneration. On June 18, however, Bucelin* mentions a "venerable Ethelred". He calls him the seventh king of Mercia who joined a monastery and died in 704. (May I. 436. /June III. 551., Buc.)
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 95)
*A hagiography source used by the authors
Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations
Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org
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