AUDREY, THE NAME THAT I WILL CHOOSE FOR MY FIRST DAUGHTER
Around 640, there was an English princess named
Ethelreda, but she was known as Audrey. She married once, but was
widowed after three years, and it was said that the marriage was never
consummated. She had taken a perpetual vow of virginity, but married
again, this time
for reasons of state. Her young husband soon grew tired of living as
brother and sister and began to make advances on her. She continually
refused. He eventually attempted to bribe the local bishop, Saint
Wilfrid of York, to release Audrey from her vows.
Saint
Wilfrid refused, and helped Audrey escape. She fled south, with her
husband following. They reached a promontory known as Colbert's Head,
where a heaven
sent seven day high tide separated the two. Eventually, Audrey's
husband left and married someone more willing, while Audrey took the
veil, and founded the great abbey
of Ely, where she lived an austere life. She eventually died of an
enormous and unsightly tumor on her neck, which she gratefully accepted
as Divine retribution for all the necklaces she had worn in her early
years. Throughout the Middle Ages, a festival, "St. Audrey's Fair", was
held at Ely
on her feast day. The exceptional shodiness of the merchandise,
especially the neckerchiefs, contributed to the English language the
word "tawdry", a corruption of "Saint Audrey."
Source: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=6
Source: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=6
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