Feast August 3
Saint Waltheof of Melrose
Religious, patron of Melrose Abbey · Feast August 3
Biography
Waltheof was a 12th-century English abbot and saint. He was the son of Simon I of St Liz, 1st Earl of Northampton and Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon, thus stepson to David I of Scotland, and the grandson of Waltheof, Earl of Northampton.
Feast day
August 3
Patronage
- Melrose Abbey
- Northamptonshire
Birth date
c. 1095
Death date
1159-08-03 (aged c. 64)
Canonization status
Canonized
Feast month
8
Wikidata qid
Q716958
Feast day of month
3