Beornstan the Archdeacon

Beornstan the Archdeacon, also known as Byrnstan, was a medieval Catholic saint from Kent in Anglo-Saxon England.^[1]

Beornstan the Archdeacon
St Augustines Abbey where Beornstan is buried.
Archdeacon
Born	Kent, Anglo-Saxon England
Died	St. Augustine's Abbey
Venerated in	Catholic Church

Very little is known of the life of this saint and he is known to history mainly through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript^[2] and also The Catalogus Sanctorum in Anglia Pausantium.^[3] He was Kentish, an archdeacon and was buried at St Augustine's Abbey so he was probably associated with the early Abbey.

References

1. Blair, John (2002). "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints". In Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard (eds.). Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 563.
2. "Stowe MS 944". British Library. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014.
3. Lambeth Palace Library MS99