Saint Everild of Everingham () was an Anglo-Saxon saint of the 7th century who founded a convent at Everingham, in the English county of the East Riding of Yorkshire. All we know of her comes from the York Breviary.

There are two churches dedicated to St Everilda: St Everilda's Church, Nether Poppleton, and Ss Mary & Everilda, Everingham.

Everilda

She was converted to Christianity by Saint Birinus, along with King Cynegils of Wessex, in 635. Her legend in the York Breviary states that she was of the Wessex nobility. She fled from home to become a nun, and was joined by Saints Bega and Wuldreda. Saint Wilfrid of York made them all nuns at a place called the Bishop's Dwelling, later known as Everildisham. This place has been identified with present-day Everingham. She gathered a large community of some eighty women.

Everilda

Veneration

Her name appears in the Martyrology of Usuard as well as in the church calendars of York and Northumbria.

Everilda

Her feast day is 9 July.

Notes

External links

"St. Everildis, Virgin, in England", Butler's Lives of the Saints

Saints of July 9: Everild of Everingham

St. Everild of Everingham

Catholic Online entry

Converts to Christianity from pagan religions

West Saxon saints

Northumbrian saints

Anglo-Saxon nuns

History of the East Riding of Yorkshire

Christianity in the East Riding of Yorkshire

Yorkshire saints

7th-century Christian saints

Female saints of medieval England

7th-century English nuns

7th-century Christian nuns