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  • Bones found in Kent church likely to be of 7th-century saint

    03/06/2020 3:44:14 PM PST · by NRx · 17 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 03-06-2020 | Harriet Sherwood
    Bones discovered more than a century ago in a Kent church are almost certainly the remains of an early English saint who was the granddaughter of Ethelbert, the first English king to convert to Christianity, experts have concluded. Saint Eanswythe, the patron saint of the coastal town of Folkestone, is thought to have founded one of the first monastic communities in England, probably around AD660. She died a few years later, while still in her teens or early 20s. ...The bones, which comprised about half of a skeleton, were assumed to belong to Eanswythe. But it was not until January...