Cissa of Crowland was a
saint
In Christianity, Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of sanctification in Christianity, holiness, imitation of God, likeness, or closeness to God in Christianity, God. However, the use of the ...
in the medieval
Fenlands. He was the successor of
Guthlac as
abbot of Crowland, and is mentioned in Felix' ''Vita Guthlaci''.
[Blair, "Handlist", p. 521] According to the ''Crowland Chronicle'' his tomb was next to Guthlac's, and like the tomb of Guthlac, was destroyed by the Scandinavians.
[ His relics were translated to ]Thorney Abbey
Thorney Abbey, now the Church of St Mary and St Botolph, was a medieval English Benedictine Congregation, English Benedictine monastery at Thorney, Cambridgeshire, Thorney, Cambridgeshire in The Fens of Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Histor ...
in the 10th-century.[
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8th-century Christian saints
East Anglian saints
Mercian saints