She was a lady of quality in Westrogothia, whom Saint Sigfrid,
apostle of that province in Sweden, who died in 1045, converted to
the faith. She made a pilgrimage to Rome, and upon her return was
martyred by her own relations about the year 1160, at her own estate
of Skofde or Scœude, in Westrogothia in Sweden. She was honored on
the 31st of July, with extraordinary devotion in that country, and in
the isle of Seland in Denmark, especially in the church which bears
her name, where her body was kept in a rich shrine, eight miles from
Copenhagen, near the sea, in which place there is a famous miraculous
well still resorted to by the Lutherans, and called to this day St.
Lene Kild, or St. Helen’s well. She was canonized by Alexander III.
in 1164, and her feast fixed on the 31st of July. See the Bollandists
ad 31 Julii.