July 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 21 by Old Calendarists.

Saints

St. Edgar the Peaceful, King of Mercia and Northumbria, and upon the death of his brother Eadwig (A.D. 959), King of all England.^[1]
St. Grimbald was a monk at St. Bertin Abbey in Saint-Omer in Flanders who was invited by King Alfred the Great to help restore scholarship in England.^[1]
St. Morwenna may have been a daughter of King St. Brychan of Brycheiniog, and is often confused with St. Modwenna (5th July), who lived two centuries later.^[1]
St. Ulrith of Chittlehampton.^[1]
St. Withburgh of East Anglia, an anchoress at East Dereham, Norfolk, England.^[1]

1 2 3 4 5 Hutchison-Hall, John (Ellsworth) (2014). Orthodox Saints of the British Isles - Volume III (1 ed.). New York: St. Eadfrith Press. ISBN 9780692257661.

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