ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 10th of July WELCOME! SAINT AMALBERGA OF MAUBEUGE, WIDOW Saint Amalberga of Maubeuge The name Amalberga is derived from the Old High German = the Immaculate One, guardian of virtue . (According to Wachter , it contains mal = blemish; Amala = without blemish, and bergen = to protect, preserve, defend). Saint Amalberga was a widow and nun venerated at Lobbe Abbey in the Netherlands. Of aristocratic stock, she was the closest relative, if not the sister, of Pepin the Elder of Landen. The Bollandists * write that Amalberga was married against her will to Witgar, Duke of Lorraine, and that she bore him three children: Saint Ablebert ( Emebert ) - who later became Bishop of Cambrai and Arras -, Saint Reineldis , and Saint Gudila ( Gudula ). Other hagiographers mention five children of hers, adding two daughters, Saint Pharaild and Saint Erme...