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Mildred, or Mildrith, was born in the mid-seventh century to a minor Anglo-Saxon king and his holy wife, known as either Domneva or Ermenburga. Their family tree boasts many other saints, beginning with King St. Ethelbert of Kent and his queen St. Bertha. Mildred and her sisters, St. Milburga of Much Wenlock and St. Mildgyth, all pursed the religious life. Their mother had been granted as much land as her tame deer could circuit in a day, as the weregild or recompense for the murder of her brothers, after King Egbert of Kent had repented of encouraging the crime. The queen used this land to create a monastery called Minster Abbey, and after Mildred had taken the Benedictine habit in France, she was made the first abbess of Minster. Mildred died near the end of the seventh century, and many miracles are attributed to her relics. She is often portrayed with a deer, or hind, which remains the symbol of Minster-in-Thanet, and though the original nuns were eventually driven out by Vikings and the monastery suppressed under Henry VIII, Benedictine nuns from Bavaria reestablished the abbey in the twentieth century and reside there to this day, with a relic of St. Mildred.
AT Rome, St. Anacletus, pope and martyr, who governed the Church of God after St. Clement, and shed lustre on it by a glorious martyrdom.
The same day, the holy prophets Joel and Esdras.
In Macedonia, blessed Silas, one of the first Christians. By the Apostles he was destined for the churches of the Gentiles with Paul and Barnabas. Filled with the grace of God, he zealously discharged the office of preaching, and after glorifying Christ by his sufferings, rested in peace.
Also, St. Serapion, martyr, who obtained the crown of martyrdom by fire, in the time of the emperor Severus and the governor Aquila.
In the island of Chio, in the time of the emperor Decius and the governor Numerian, the martyr St. Myrops. Being clubbed to death, he went to our Lord.
In Africa, the holy confessors Eugenius, the faithful and virtuous bishop of Carthage, and all the clergy of that church, to the number of about five hundred or more, among whom were many small children employed as lectors. In the persecution of the Vandals, under the Arian king Hunneric, they were subjected to scourging and starvation, and driven into a most painful banishment, which they bore with joy for God’s sake. In their number were also two distinguished personages, the archdeacon Salutaris, and Muritta, occupying the second rank among the ministers of the church. Both had three times confessed the faith, and were illustrious by their sturdy perseverance in Christianity.
In Bretagne, St. Turian, bishop and confessor, a man of admirable simplicity and innocence.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.