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Probable remains of Saint Eanswythe, England(Courtesy Finding Eanswythe)
1885 depiction of reliquary (left) and Saint Eanswythe (right)(©Mark Hourahane/Diocese of Canterbury; Courtesy Finding Eanswythe)
Many people in the port town of Folkestone in southeastern England still revere Saint Eanswythe, a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon princess who helped found Folkestone Priory, the first nunnery in England. Her remains were thought to have been interred at the priory until the 1530s, but went m
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