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A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

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December 25 · Virgin

St. Adalsendis

St. Adalsendis

A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

Traditional feast

December 25
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Virgin

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

Keep their day. Remember them on December 25 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican, Belgian, and Benedictine Martyrologies. Authority: — Mention in the Lives of S. Rictrudis and S. Clotsendis.] S. Adalsendis was daughter of S. Adalbald and S. Rictrudis. She was the youngest of their daughters, and after the murder of her father, she followed her mother into the convent of Marchiennes in Hainault “ She who entered last of her sisters in at the gate of temporal life, entered first of them by the gate of death to life eternal.” She died on Christmas Day. Her mother restrained her tears for her till the Feast of the Innocents, lest her sorrow should mar the glad solemnity of the Nativity.

Feast days

Feast: December 25

Nine days · Free

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Adalsendis's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.