ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 6th of March WELCOME! SAINTS KYNEBURGA, KYNESWIDE, AND TIBBA The two first were daughters of Penda, the cruel pagan king of Mercia, and sisters to three successive Christian Kings, Peada, Wulfere, and Ethelred, and to the pious prince Merowald. ST KYNEBURGA Kyneburge [Kyneburga], as Bede informs us, was married to Alcfrid, eldest son of Oswi, and in his father’s life-time king of Bernicia. They are said to have lived in perpetual continency. THE NUNNERY By his death she was left a widow in the bloom of life, and, renouncing the world, governed a nunnery which she built; or, according to others, found built by her brother Wulfere, in a moist fenny place, on the confines of the counties of Huntingdon and Northampton, then called Dormundcaster, afterwards from her, Kyneburgecaster, now Caster [Castor]. A MIRROR OF ALL SANCTITY The author of her life in Capgrave says, that she lived here a mirror of all ...