Beornstan the Archdeacon

Beornstan the Archdeacon
Beornstan the Archdeacon
	St Augustines Abbey where Beornstan is buried.
Archdeacon
Born	Kent, Anglo-Saxon England
Died	St. Augustine's Abbey
Venerated in	Catholic Church

Last updated June 06, 2025

Beornstan the Archdeacon, also known as Byrnstan, was a medieval Catholic saint from Kent in Anglo-Saxon England.^[1]

Very little is known of the life of this saint and he is known to history mainly through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript ^[2] and also The Catalogus Sanctorum in Anglia Pausantium.^[3] He was Kentish, an archdeacon and was buried at St Augustine's Abbey, indicating a possible association with the early Abbey.

References

↑ Blair, John (2002). "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints". In Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard (eds.). Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 563.
↑ "Stowe MS 944". British Library. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014.
↑ Lambeth Palace Library MS99

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[1] Blair, John (2002). "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints". In Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard (eds.). Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 563.

[2] "Stowe MS 944". British Library. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014.

[3] Lambeth Palace Library MS99

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