ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 7th of July WELCOME! SAINT HEDDA, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR Winchester Cathedral Saint Hedda was an English Saxon, a monk of the monastery of Saint Hilda , and was made bishop of the West-Saxons in 676. He resided first at Dorchester, near Oxford, but afterwards removed his see to Winchester. King Ceadwal going to Rome to be baptised died there, and was buried in the church of Saint Peter in 688. KING CEADWAL'S DEATH His kinsman Ina succeeded him in the throne. In his wise and wholesome laws, the most ancient extant among those of our English Saxon kings, enacted by him in a great council of bishops and aldermen in 693, he declares that in drawing them up he had been assisted by the counsels of St Hedda and St Erconwald. THE LAWS In these laws theft is ordained to be punished with cutting off a hand or a foot; robbery on the highway, committed by a band not under seven in number, with death, unless the cri...