The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . now sent with some of her hair, no doubt toidentify the sender. Her mother commanded her to return, butthe Abbess refused to let her go, whereupon she furtively escapedand landed at Ipplesfleot, Ebbsfleet, where a chapel wasafterwards built to commemorate the In her Life we aretold that, on landing, the saint impressed her feet miraculouslyon the squared stone on which she stepped, which afterwardseffected miracles of She brought with her from Francesome vestments and relics
The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . now sent with some of her hair, no doubt toidentify the sender. Her mother commanded her to return, butthe Abbess refused to let her go, whereupon she furtively escapedand landed at Ipplesfleot, Ebbsfleet, where a chapel wasafterwards built to commemorate the In her Life we aretold that, on landing, the saint impressed her feet miraculouslyon the squared stone on which she stepped, which afterwardseffected miracles of She brought with her from Francesome vestments and relics, together with a nail from Christscross (clavis crucifixionis Dominicae). She joined her mothers 1 Symeon of Durham, , 649. 2 Hardy, op. cit. i. 377. 3 Ib. 4 This seems a repetition of a similar story told of Augustine. uCu (jnam tirti JWlriifttilipaf ttrtnljwixij ^miflvniCiinur* ii~][flj ifti p tir TtT-4^1 8t ptftn noOTB lajt L^nitrrir tff&ttns ptnrtiiiliiii^no tw pjfrt ^nirtnt in me A iirtvi jt~i ri-if TBTJ i E ti . • nor m rf|SnTT«Wv8ttr unffmoi. 1 Btn THE AMBIT OF EORMENBERGAS KSTATE IN THANET. [/(/. III., /.icing j>. 226. APPENDIX I 227 monastery, of which she afterwards became Abbess, and whereshe had a band of seventy nuns. She was consecrated by Arch-bishop Theodore or, as Symeon of Durham says, by ArchbishopDeusdedit. The date of her death is apparently not known,but she was commemorated on i3th July. Stubbs speaks of thenumerous dedications of churches to St. Mildred, and the frequentuse of her name as a baptismal name. Churches dedicated toher exist in Bread Street and in the Poultry in London, andothers at Preston, Canterbury, and Whippingham. There wasalso one at Oxford, but it has been Of thisDr. Bright says, every one who passes up Brasenose Lanetraverses ground belonging of old to a church named afterthe canonised granddaughter of Penda, and three columns ofits crypt remain under the common room of Lincoln
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