Wilgyth of Cholsey was a 6th-century female monastic saintThe Oxford Dictionary of Saints from Anglo-Saxon England who was venerated locally in Berkshire.Julian Marcus Luxford, "New Light on St Wilgyth, Sister of St Juthwara" University of St Andrews Journal; Volume XXV, 2004). She is venerated in Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and Anglicanism.
Provenance Very little is known of the life of this saint who is known to history through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript,Stowe MS 944 , British Library. and Manuscript R.7.13. held in Trinity College (Cambridge) Library.Luxford, J. M., "New Light on St Wilgyth, Sister of St Juthwara", Southern History; 25(Folkestone, 2003), pp. 1-7.
Family She had a (step)brother Bana, founder of a monastery at Le Relecq-Kerhuon in France, and sisters Saints Juthwara and Sidwell,Förster, Max. "Die heilige Sativola oder Sidwell." Anglia; 62 (1938): 33-80. and Eadwara (possibly a nickname of JuthwaraSt. Aude Wyry alias St. Juthwara.) She possibly had other brothers, Paul AurelianHeesok Chang, Robert DeMaria, Jr., Samantha Zacher, A Companion to British Literature, Medieval Literature, 700 - 1450 (John Wiley & Sons, 2013) page 69 a bishop, Gulval another saint,Doble, G. H., Saint Gudwal or Gurwal, bishop and confessor; with notes on Gulval church and parish by Charles Henderson. (Truro: Netherton and Worth, 1933).Doble, G. H. (1960) The Saints of Cornwall: part 1. Truro: Dean and Chapter; pp. 61-78 Pautel and Nautel.St. Aude Wyry alias St. Juthwara. If a sister of Paul Aurelian, she would have been the daughter of a Cornish/Welsh chieftain named Perphirius from Penychen in Glamorgan. Legend holds that her mother died while she was quite young and that following the later death of her father, two of her sisters were murdered by her stepmother.
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