This Day in the Life of the Church

April 15, 2024

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Both HTOS graduate and undergraduate students went this weekend to Erie, PA. There is an Old Rite congregation, which we visit as a part of our studies of the Russian Church and the ROCOR history. On the way back to Jordanville, we went to Niagra Falls. This was during the Canadian side meeting with two HTOS alumni.

A Scottish Martyr from the Viking Era

The Netflix Last Kingdom series is loosely based on the events of 9th-century British history, thus showing that there is interest in this period among the general public

Venerable Martyr Æbbe, Abbess of Coldingham, was martyred on this day in 870.

The Church today keeps the memory of St. Æbbe "the Younger," an abbess of Coldingham Priory in the Scottish Borders in the 9^th century.

Biographically, little is known about her except the circumstances surrounding her death. In order to avoid rape by Viking invaders, she resorted to self-mutilation, cutting off her nose in front of her fellow nuns, who emulated her example.

While this did indeed scare away the invaders, the Danes soon returned and set fire to the convent, securing crowns of martyrdom for St. Æbbe and her sisters in the convent. They perished in the flames on April 2, 870.

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