ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 30th of January WELCOME! 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, a...