At the monastery of Ely in East Anglia, Saint Etheldreda, abbess, who, the daughter of a king and herself queen of Northumbria, having twice set aside marriage, received the veil of a nun from the holy bishop Wilfrid in the monastery she herself had founded, over which she presided as mother by her example and counsels to a great number of virgins.
June 23rd
Saint Etheldreda, Abbess
Latin Original
In monastério Eliénsi in Anglia orientáli, sanctae Ediltrádis, abbatíssze, quee, fília regis et ipsa regína Northümbriz, bis nüptiis posthábitis, a sancto antístite Wilfrído sanctimoniálium velum accépit in monastério ab ipsa cóndito, cui exémplis et mónitis vírginum perplóárium mater préfuit.