Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

14 March is the feast of St. Mathilda, and if my Mam had carried on the Catholic tradition (I’m not a Catholic, but she is) I would have been called Mathilda. Luckily, neither of my parents were having anything to do with that. I am not a Mathilda. I’d probably have ended up being called Matty or something.

Mathilda of Ringelheim was born in the 9th century A.D. and five years later entered the 10th century, because she could. She eventually married King Henry I of the East Franks. She got into trouble for giving away money to the poor, and went into exile in a nunnery before being returned to court. She founded a number of religious institutions and was canonized because of it.

I’m glad she didn’t meet a bloody end, unlike so many saints. She died on March 14 968, a ripe old age for those times, and I guess since nobody really knew her birthday that’s why they chose her death day instead.

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