From the time founded Ely, Etheldreda ceased to wear clothing of fine linen and dressed only in woolen garments. Except at Easter, Pentecost, and Epiphany, she washed only in cold water. Only when she was ill or on great church festivals did she eat more than one meal a day. She prayed for those who did not pray and often kept vigil in the church from midnight until dawn. Seven years after the foundation of Ely Abbey, she died of the plague.
Saxon women saints.
In art, St. Etheldreda is crowned, holding a crozier, book, and a budding staff. There is a 20th- century English banner with her image on the University of Pennsylvania homepage. Count Hidulphus of Hainault was a courtier of the Austrasian king and husband of Saint Agia . Prior to his elevation to the episcopacy in 756, Bishop James of Toul was a monk of Hornbach Abbey in the diocese of Metz. The Roman priest John was beheaded during the persecution of Julian the Apostate.