XI. CHAP.* 1.1
1.2. &c. Of S. Christiana an English-Saxon Virgin.
1. ABout this time most probably a Holy Virgin named Christina, or Christiana, derived from an English-Saxon family ended a most holy life: yet her memory is not ce∣lebrated by any of our English Histories. But Miraeus in his Belgick Calendar on the twenty sixth of Iuly thus writes concerning her, Teneramund, a town of Flanders Imperiall, in the diocese of Gaunt,* 1.2 seated at the meeting of the Rivers Scaldis and Tenera, acknowledges two Tutelar Saints, S. Hilduard Bishop, and S. Chri∣stiana a Virgin, whose Sacred Relicks are preser∣ved there in a College of Canons. S. Christiana was the daughter of a King of England: And Saint Hilduardus flourished in the year seaven-hun∣dred and fifty.
2. But some what more particularly tou∣ching her parents and manner of life we read in the Gallican Martyrologe as followeth:* 1.3 On the seaventh of September at Teneramund in the Bishoprick of Gaunt is commemorated the Translation of S. Christiana a Holy Virgin the daughter of Migra••nus King of England, who coming into Flanders, at Diclivena was re∣ceived among the Religious Virgins, and having devoutly performed her course of vertue in the service of our Saviour the Spouse of Holy Virgins, there happily dyed, and was buried with a great esteem of Sanctity. And afterward being glori∣fied by innumerable miracles, to the end her ve∣neration might be more frequent, her Sacred Re∣licks were translated to Teneramunda, and ho∣nourably reposed there in the Collegiat Church of the most Holy Virgin-Mother of God together with the bones of S. Hilduardus the Apostle and Tutelar Saint of the same town, together with whom she is by the inhabitants of the same Town and Territory adioyning honoured as companion of the same Saint in the protection of that place.
3. Again touching the manner how being born and educated a Pagan, she was miraculously converted, and exalted to so high a degree of Sanctity is thus further re∣lated in the same Martyrologe:* 1.4 On the twenty seaventh of Iuly at Teneramunda in Flanders is celebrated the Memory of S. Christiana a Virgin, who being the only daughter of Migramnus King of the English, was in her tender age most devout to her false Gods and Idols, according to the Tra∣dition of her Ancestours. But Almighty God looking on her with eyes of Mercy, sent an Angell from heaven to her in the shape of a beggar who instructed her in the Christian Faith, and com∣manded her to be baptised. By whose conduct like∣wise she came to Dikelvenna, where after she