From: m.driussi@genie.geis.com
Subject: (urth) Hethor
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 98 19:59:00 GMT


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"BEOCCA AND HETHOR, monks and martyrs of Chertsey (Surrey), killed by
the Danes in 870.  The memory of these monks, supposed to be as many
as ninety, was kept alive in fragmentary chronicles and by William of
Malmesbury.  Their deaths, like those of monks of Peterborough,
Bardney, Ely, and Crowland, were believed to be the work of the same
Danish army as that which killed Edmund of East Anglia.  It seems
unlikely that the number of the monks concerned is accurate.  Feast:
10 April.
"G.P., p. 143; R.P.S.; C.S.P." (THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF SAINTS,
third edition).

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