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St. Iduberga or Itt A

St. Iduberga or Itt A, Mat

Traditional feast

May 8
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Feast

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

Keep their day. Remember them on May 8 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican, Belgian and Benedictine Martyrologies. Authorities:— Mention in the life of S. Gertrude, her daughter, and in the Chronicle of Sigebert of Gemblours.] This blessed woman, the wife of the saintly Pepin of Landen (Feb. 21st), mayor of the Palace, was the mother of S. Gertrude (March 21st) and S. Begga (Dec. 17th), who married Duke Ansegis, and became the mother of Pepin of Herstal, the father of Charles Martel. She became a widow about 646, and retired to the convent of Nivelles, governed by her daughter Gertrude, where she peacefully ended her days.

Feast days

Feast: May 8

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Iduberga or Itt A's story, and a nudge to keep going.

Also on May 8
G

St. Gibrian

May 8 · Priest, Confessor
W

St. Wiro

May 8 · Bishop
P

St. Peter of Tarentaise

May 8 · Bishop
← All 1726 saints in the library
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.