ST ALDEGONDE OF MAUBEUGE, VIRGIN AND ABBESS

ST ALDEGONDE OF MAUBEUGE, VIRGIN AND ABBESS - 30 JANUARY

ST ALDEGONDE OF MAUBEUGE, VIRGIN AND ABBESS

Saint Aldegonde (Aldegondes) was daughter of Walbert, of royal blood of France, and born in Hainault about the year 630. She consecrated herself to God by a vow of virginity, when very young, and resisted all solicitations to marriage, serving God in the house of her holy parents, till, in 638, she took the religious veil, and founded and governed a great house of holy virgins at Maubeuge.

SHE WAS FAVOURED WITH AN EMINENT GIFT OF PRAYER

She was favoured with an eminent gift of prayer, and many revelations; but was often tried by violent slanders and persecutions, which she looked upon as the highest favours of the divine mercy, begging of God that she might be found worthy to suffer still more for his sake.

HER HOLY DEATH

His divine providence sent her a lingering and most painful cancer in her breast. The saint bore the torture of her distemper, also the caustics and incisions of the surgeons, not only with patience, but even with joy, and expired in raptures of sweet love, on January 30, 660, according to Bollandus.

HER RELICS

Her relics are enshrined in the great church of Maubeuge, where her monastery is now a college of noble virgins canonesses. Her name occurs on this day in the ancient Breviary of Autun, and in the martyrologies of Rabanus, Usuard, and Notker: also in the Roman. At St Omer, where a parish church bears her name, she is called Saint Orgonne.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)

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