Aldegund
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Aldegund (Template:Circa 639–684), also Aldegundis or Aldegonde, was a Frankish Benedictine abbess who is honored as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in France and by the Orthodox Church.
Aldegund was closely related to the Merovingian royal family. Her parents, afterwards honored as St. Walbert, Count of Guînes, and St. Bertilla de Mareuil, lived in the County of Hainaut. She is the most famous of what Aline Hornaday calls the "Maubeuge Cycle" of Merovingian saints.[1]
Aldegund was urged to marry, but she chose the life of the cloister. Having allegedly walked across the waters of the Sambre, she had built on its banks a small hospital at Malbode, which later became, under the name Maubeuge Abbey, a famous abbey of Benedictine nuns, though at a later date these were replaced by canonesses.[2]
She died in 684 of breast cancer.[3] Saint Aldegund's Catholic liturgical feast is kept on January 30.
She has been supposed to be the sister of Saint Waltrude (Waudru).[4][5] She was succeeded by her nieces, Waltrude's daughters, Aldetrude and then Madelberte.[6]
There are several early Lives, but none by contemporaries. Several of these, including the tenth-century biography by Hucbald, are printed by the Bollandists (Acta SS., January 11, 1034–35).
Notes
File:Wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Script error: No such module "template wrapper". Template:Reflist
External links
Template:Commons category-inline
- Saint of the Day, January 30: Aldegundis of Maubeuge Template:Webarchive at SaintPatrickDC.org
Template:Subject bar Template:Authority control
- ↑ Aline Hornaday, "Toward a Prosopography of the "Maubeuge Cycle" Saints", Prosopon Newsletter, 1996 on-line text Template:Webarchive.
- ↑ Thurston, Herbert. "St. Aldegundis." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 30 May 2016
- ↑ Butler's Lives of the Saints, 1864.
- ↑ article in Archéologie (March 2003), n° 398, p. 7
- ↑ Saint of the Day, January 30: Aldegundis of Maubeuge Template:Webarchive SaintPatrickDC.org. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles incorporating text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference
- 639 births
- 684 deaths
- 7th-century Frankish nuns
- 7th-century Christian nuns
- People from Pas-de-Calais
- Benedictine abbesses
- Burials at Maubeuge Abbey
- Colombanian saints
- Christian female saints of the Middle Ages
- 7th-century Frankish saints