Cissa of Crowland

Saint Cissa of Crowland
Abbot of Crowland
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church
Major shrine	Thorney Abbey
Feast	23 September [1]

Cissa of Crowland was a saint in the medieval Fenlands. He was the successor of Guthlac as abbot of Crowland, and is mentioned in Felix' Vita Guthlaci. ^[2] According to the Crowland Chronicle his tomb was next to Guthlac's, and like the tomb of Guthlac, was destroyed by the Scandinavians. ^[2] His relics were translated to Thorney Abbey in the 10th-century. ^[2]

Notes

1. "Saint Cissa of Northumbria". 5 July 2012.
2. Blair, "Handlist", p. 521

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, pp. 495–565, ISBN   0-19-820394-2

External links

• Cissa 2 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England