St Erkenwald, Light of London
Erkenwald’s high reputation as Abbot of Chertsey, a monastery of his own foundation, and his part in the conversion of King Sebbi of Essex, led to election as Bishop of London in 675. He helped King Ine to issue Wessex’s first code of law, and after his death in 693 was venerated as a saint and ‘the Light of London’.
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