Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

St Ethelburga NPG D23691

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Unknown artist

St Ethelburga was the first leader of a women's monastic order in England. When she refused a marriage arranged by her brother Erkonwald (later Bishop of London) she was banished to a nunnery by her brother. Once there, she threw herself into the work of God. She became the first Abbess of the Benedictine Abbey in Barking Essex, one of the first religious houses for women in England. She is said to have had a vision of a light "brighter than the sun at noonday" which inspired her to social... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.