Æbbe the Younger
| Saint Æbbe of Coldingham | |
|---|---|
| Born | Unknown |
| Died | April 2, 870 Coldingham Monastery, Scotland |
| Canonized | Pre-Congregation |
| Feast | April 2 |
For the earlier Abbess of Coldingham, see Æbbe the Elder.
Saint Æbbe of Coldingham [also Ebbe, Aebbe, Abb], also known as "Æbbe the Younger", (died 870) was an Abbess of Coldingham Priory in south-east Scotland.[1]
Like many of her fellow female saints of Anglo-Saxon England, little is known about her life.[2] She presided over the Benedictine Abbey at Coldingham.[3]
She is best known for an act of self-mutilation to avoid rape by Viking invaders: according to a ninth-century chronicle, she took a razor and cut off her nose in front of the nuns, who followed her example.[4] Their appearance so disgusted the invaders that the women were saved from rape but not from death, as the Danes soon returned and set fire to the convent, killing Æbbe and her entire community.[5] It has been suggested that this is the origin of the saying cutting off the nose to spite the face.
References
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- ↑ Barret, OSB, Michael. “Saint Ebba, Virgin and Abbess, and her Companions, Martyrs, A.D. 870”. The Calendar of Scottish Saints, 1919
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External links
- St. Abbs Community Website
- St Ebba and Coldingham Priory Website
- Project Continua: Biography of Aebbe the Younger Project Continua is a web-based multimedia resource dedicated to the creation and preservation of women’s intellectual history from the earliest surviving evidence into the 21st Century.
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