Remains of saint found hidden in church wall 1400 years after her death

ANCIENT remains hidden inside the wall of a Kent church have been confirmed as belonging to one of England’s earliest saints.

The Anglo-Saxon princess was a devout Christian who was said to have refused to marry the pagan king of northeast England and instead decided to become a nun. But tragically, Eanswythe’s life was cut short – possibly by a bubonic plague epidemic – and she died in her late teens or very early 20s.Now, over 1,400 years after her death, Kent archaeologists and historians, working with Queen's University in Belfast, have confirmed the human remains kept at the Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe are those of the saint.

The Saint’s bones also showed very little sign of injury – apart from a potential stress fracture in one foot bone and two possible damaged finger bones.

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