Saint Lewina (or Lewinna, Levinna, Lewine, Leofwynn; 7th century) was a British virgin and martyr who was put to death by Saxon invaders.
As a virgin, she was killed by a Saxon heathen due to her faith during the life of Archbishop Theodore of Tarsus (died 690).
[6] The next day he went to Saint Andrew's Abbey, 2 leagues (6 mi; 10 km) away, where he was told Lewinna's body lay.
Concerning this Saint we have only a tradition that she was a British virgin put to death as a Christian by the Saxon invaders of the island.
[10] Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar (1830–1920) in her Dictionary of Saintly Women (1904) wrote, St. Lewine or Levinna, July 22, 24, V.M.
A British maiden, said to be of royal birth, supposed to have suffered martyrdom from some pagan Saxon in the 7th century.
Her body was kept in a monastery at Seaford, near Lewes in Sussex, and translated in 1058 to Berg St. Winoc in Flanders, where her feast is observed, July 24.
Her body was honourably kept at Seaford near Lewes in Sussex, till, in 1058, her remains, with those of St. Idaberga, virgin, and part of those of St. Oswald, were conveyed into Flanders, and are now deposited in St. Winock’s abbey at Berg.