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The Holy Frideswida (also: Friðuswiþ, Frevisse and deadlines; * 650 or 665 or the end of the 7th century or around 700 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, † October 19 or 727 to 735 or 735 October 19 in Oxford or Binsey, Oxfordshire, England) was legendary after reports from the 12th century daughter of the Saxon king Under Didan ( Didianus ) Berkshire out of the house of Wessex and his wife Safrida.

Undetectable is a arisen before 1066 pin of Säkularkanonikern under her patronage in Oxford. At the collegiate church dedicated to her with her reliquary a much-visited pilgrimage developed in the Middle Ages. In 1546 it was the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Oxford.

Frideswide is patroness of the city and University of Oxford. Relics of her are in the Abbeys of Reading, New Minster ( Winchester ) and St. George's Chapel ( Windsor ). Is also found in France, her cult in Bomy ( Diocese Therouanne ). Your picture can also be found in art, so in the abbess 's robe with book, Palm Tree or flower.

The feast day of Saint Frideswide is in the Catholic Church on October 19, the Feast of Translatio on 12 February.