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A Misplaced Miracle: the origins of St Modwynn of Burton and St Eadgyth of Polesworth (2016)
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Sargent. (2016). A Misplaced Miracle: the origins of St Modwynn of Burton and St Eadgyth of Polesworth. Midland History, 41(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2016.1159851

The twelfth-century Life of St Modwynn of Burton upon Trent (Staffordshire) includes an episode in which St Modwynn and St Eadgyth of Polesworth (Warwickshire) resurrect a nun named Osgyth who had drowned in a river. Current scholarly consensus locat... Read More about A Misplaced Miracle: the origins of St Modwynn of Burton and St Eadgyth of Polesworth.