Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet

Saint Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet (also known as Eadburh and Bugga) was a princess of Wessex, She was reputed to be zealous in the pursuit of knowledge. In 716, Edburga became a Benedictine nun at the abbey. She corresponded with Saint Boniface and Lullus.

Between 718 and 720 her mother wrote to Boniface and soon after, in 720, Edburga herself wrote to him, sending him fifty shillings and an altar cloth.

In 716, Boniface addresses to her a letter containing the famous Vision of the Monk of Wenlock.

She succeeded Mildrith as the abbess around 733, and presided over about seventy nuns. During her time as an abbess she was able to secure royal charters for the abbey, as well as having a new church (Ss. Peter and Paul) built there, to provide a shrine for the relics of St Mildrith.