Our Lady & St Werburgh

St Werburgh was a Benedictine and patroness of Chester, Abbess of Weedon, Trentham, Hanbury, Minster in Sheppy, and Ely. She was born in Staffordshire early in the 7th century and died at Trentham in third February in 699 or 700. St Werburgh was a King's daughter and a member of the Mercian household and had relatives in the French Kentish and East Anglian Royal families. Her mother was St. Ermenilda, daughter of Ercombert, King of Kent, and St. Sexburga. Her father was Wulfhere, son of Penda, the fiercest of the Mercian kings.