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Arilda of Oldbury

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bearing Arilda's name. The waters from the well are said to run red with her blood, though a more prosaic explanation is the presence of a red alga of the genus
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Julian M. Luxford, "The art and architecture of English Benedictine monasteries, 1300–1540: a patronage history", Boydell Press, 2005,
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Two churches in Gloucestershire are dedicated to Arilda, one at Oldbury-on-Severn near her traditional home, a second (
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Leland claims that Arilda lived in Kington, a hamlet in the parish of Oldbury-on-Severn, where there is a
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G. Jones, "Authority, Challenge and Identity in three Gloucestershire Saints' Cults",
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in 1086, suggesting that their names may be derived from the saint.
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Index

Arilda
Saint

Virgin martyr
Gloucestershire
Wales
Oldbury-on-Severn
Gloucestershire
Roman Catholic Church
Anglican Communion
shrine
St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester
Feast
Patronage
Oldbury-on-Severn
Oldbury-on-the-Hill
Gloucestershire
saint
Oldbury-on-Severn
English
Gloucestershire
Anglo-Saxon
Welsh
John Leland
St Arild's Church
Oldbury-on-the-Hill
Domesday Book
holy well
Hildenbrandia
St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester

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