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ST. ELGIVA 255 of an intolerable pain in the head. Elfleda worked a windingHsheet for him and sent it to him. Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, wrote to Elfleda, abbess of Whitby, ask- ing her to befriend St. Wilfrid when he was recalled from exile by King Eald- frith. The king again quarrelled with Wilfrid, but on his deathbed he sent for Elfleda, and she afterwards declared at a council of prelates that her brother in his last hours desired a reconciliation. Elfleda outlived Wilfrid. Her friend, St. Cuthbert, died in 687 ; she was present at his translation in 698, and wrapped him in a linen cloth. AA.8S. Bede, Eccl Hist., lib. iii. cap. 24. Montalembert, Monks of the Westy iv. Eckenstein. St. Elfleda (2) of Glastonbury, April 13, is mentioned in an old English martyrology. She is the same as Eloiya (3). St Elfleda (3), or Ethelfl.£d. 10th century. Daughter of Edward the Elder. Nun at Rumsey or Wilton. Sister of St. Edbuega (6). St. Elfreda, July 9. Probably same as Elfleda. AA,SS. St Elgina, or Elgisa, Elgiva (3). St Elgiva (l Oct. 19 (Algiva, Angina). End oi 7th century. The holy woman who taught Fkideswide to be a saint. St. Elgin's church, at Ford- ingham, near HuU, in Yorkshire, is supposed to take its name from Elgiva, the festival being on the same day as that of St. Frideswide. Miss Arnold Forster thinks Elgin is perhaps Elphin, an obscure Welshman, a saint who has a church at Warrington ; he was con- temporary with St. David. St Elgiva (2), June 4, V. Abbess of Shaftesbury. Daughter of Alfred, king of England, who built that monas- tery for her in 880. Commemorated in the Benedictine Martyrology, but the Bollandists think she has no place in the Calendar, and that Bucelinus and others have confused her with Elgiva (4). St Elgiva (3) of Glastonbury, Oct. 23 (u3Slgisa, Alfgina, Algina, Algisa, Elfgiva, Elfleda, Elgina, Elgisa, Ethelfleda, Ethelgiva, Ithelgeofu, etc.). + c. 936. Niece or other near relation of Athelstane, king of England (925-940). Yepes calls her Elgina, and says she was earner era mayor to the queen, and governess to her children. Hearing of the sanctity of St. Dunstan, she determined to settle at Glastonbury, that she might profit by his instruction. She therefore built a house close to his monastery at Glastonbury, and with his sanction she built a chapel in honour of the Virgin Mary, and appointed a certain number of canons to peiform the ofiGiceSy for which service she endowed them with fat livings. Hearing that the king was coming to Glastonbury, she sent and asked him, with all his followers, to rest and dine at her house. He accepted the invitation, and some of his attendants came before him to see that all was in order for his reception. They said to her, " Your preparations are perfect ; you have everything that king or man could wish for, if only you do not run short of mead." She replied that the Virgin Mary would not allow such a misfortune to happen. Athelstane arrived with his suite, attended mass, and then came to Elgiva's house and sat down to dinner. At the first draught that he took, he emptied a flagon of mead all but about half a pint. The saint continued to help him and his retinue out of the same flagon. There was but a cupful at the bottom of the flask, but it was miracu- lously increased, for she poured without stint, and after her numerous guests had all had enough, there was still a cup of mead left in the flask. After living very piously at Glaston- bury for some years, Elgiva was taken ill, and felt that death was near. St. Dunstan came to see her, and exhorted her to bear all her sufferings with patience. She charged him to give all her things to the poor, and to sell her land for the benefit of the Church. He stayed so late talking to her, that when he got back to the monastery, the door was locked for the night, so he stood outside it, saying his prayers. While he was singing the psalms, he saw a shining white dove fly in at Elgiva's window. He returned at once to her room, where he heard two voices talking about eternal life. He saw that the