(7TH CENT.)
[Anglican Martyrologies, but new Anglo-Roman Martyrology, Jan. 23.
Authority: Bede's Eccl. Hist. lib. 4. c. 9.]
Theoritgitha was a holy sister in the convent of Barking on the Thames,
under the rule of the abbess Ethelberga. "She had always endeavoured to
serve God in all humility and sincerity," says Bede, "and she took care
to assist this same mother in keeping up regular discipline, by
instructing and reproving the younger ones." She suffered nine years
from a cruel distemper, which purified her soul. She saw in a vision a
sign of the approaching death of S. Ethelberga.
[Illustration: Decoration]