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Edward the Martyr
King of the English (975-978)
Saint Boniface
missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire
Saint Walpurga
West Saxon saint
Aldhelm
Aldhelm (, ; 25 May 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, and a writer and scholar of Latin poetry, was born before the middle of the 7th century. He is said to have been the son of Kenten, who was of the royal house of Wessex. He was certainly not, as his early biographer Faritius asserts, the brother of King Ine. After his death he was venerated as a saint, his feast day being the day of his death, 25 May.
Swithun
Swithun (or Swithin; ; ; died 2 July 863) was an Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester and subsequently patron saint of Winchester Cathedral. His historical importance as bishop is overshadowed by his reputation for posthumous miracle-working.
Centwine of Wessex
king of Wessex
Willibald
Willibald (; c. 700 – c.787) was an 8th-century bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria.
Birinus
Birinus (also Berin, Birin;  – 3 December 649 or 650) was the first Bishop of Dorchester and was known as the "Apostle to the West Saxons" for his conversion of the Kingdom of Wessex to Christianity. He is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Anglican churches.
Lul
Saint Lullus (also known as Lull or Lul, born AD 710 – died 16 October 786) was the first permanent archbishop of Mainz, succeeding Saint Boniface, and first abbot of the Benedictine Hersfeld Abbey. He is historiographically considered the first official sovereign of the Electorate of Mainz.
Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury
first wife of Edmund I
Leoba
Leoba, (also Lioba (of Tauberbischofsheim) and Leofgyth) (c. 710 – 28 September 782) was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine nun and is recognized as a saint. In 746 she and her companions left Wimborne Minster in Dorset to join her kinsman Boniface in his mission to the German people. Leoba was a learned woman and involved in the foundation of Benedictine nunneries in Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt. She had a leading role in evangelizing the area. Leoba was acclaimed for many miracles: saving a village from fire; saving a town from a terrible storm; protecting the reputation of the nuns in her convent; and
Deusdedit of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury
Burchard I
Bishop of Würzburg
Berhtwald
Berhtwald (died 731) was the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury in England. His predecessor had been Theodore of Tarsus. Berhtwald begins the first continuous series of native-born Archbishops of Canterbury, although there had been previous Anglo-Saxon archbishops, they did not succeed each other until Berhtwald's successor Tatwine.
Richard the Pilgrim
saint of the Christian Church
Wigbert
thumb|Saint Wigbert and Saint Boniface. Stained glass window by Alois Plum. Wihtberht or Wigbert (May 7, 675 – August 13, 747) born in Wessex around 675, was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine monk and a missionary and disciple of Boniface who travelled with the latter in Frisia and northern and central Germany to convert the local tribes to Christianity. His feast day is August 13th in the Roman Catholic Church and on April 12th in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Eoban
Eoban (died 5 June 754 at Dokkum) was a companion of St. Boniface, and was martyred with him on his final mission. In Germany, he is revered as a bishop and martyr.
Frithuswith
thumb|Frithuswith hiding with swine. From a stained glass in the Lady Chapel (Gloucester)|Lady Chapel At [[Gloucester Cathedral.]] thumb|St Margaret's Well, Binsey, Oxfordshire.
Hædde
Hædde (died 705) was a medieval monk and Bishop of Winchester.
Winibald
Winibald (Winebald, Winnibald, Wunebald, Wynbald) (c. 702 - 18 December 761) was abbot of the Benedictine double monastery of Heidenheim am Hahnenkamm. Traditionally, he is called the brother of Willibald and Walpurga.
Cuthburh
Saint Cuthburh or Cuthburg, Cuthburga (; died 31 August 725) was the first Abbess of Wimborne Minster. She was the sister of Ine, King of Wessex and was married to the Northumbrian king Aldfrith.
Agilbert
Agilbert ( 650–680) was the second bishop of the West Saxon kingdom and later Bishop of Paris. He is venerated as a saint within the Catholic Church, with his feast day falling on 11 October.
Neot
Saint who lived as a monk in Cornwall
Æthelnoth
Archbishop of Canterbury
Ælfheah the Bald
Bishop of Winchester, Saint
Witta of Büraburg
West Saxon Saint
Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet
Catholic saint, princess and abbess in Wessex
Sativola
West Saxon saint
Æthelgar
Æthelgar (died 990) was Archbishop of Canterbury, and previously Bishop of Selsey.
Grimbald
Benedictine monk of the Abbey of Saint Bertin
Edith of Polesworth
Anglo-Saxon abbess
Solus
English monk and saint
Wuna of Wessex
queen of the West Saxons