Saint Aldegunais – Saint Of The Week

Saint Aldegunais

Feast: 30th January

Patronage: Cancer 

Raised by St Walbert and St Bertila and sister to St Waldetrudis, how could St Aldegunais not be a Saint herself?  She was a member of the royal family in Flanders.  She had many offers of marriage yet refused all and joined the religious life. St Amandius was the bishop of Maastricht whom she received the veil from. She founded a convent near Sambre River which later became Mauberge, a well known Benedictine monastery.  She died of cancer around the age of fifty four.  

She was both Virgin and abess.

St Aldegunais, pray for us 

Sources 

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1220

Originally posted 2015-01-27 05:52:21.

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