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September 7
September 7
Virgin
Abbess
Madelberta was a niece of St Aldegund. She was brought up in Aldegund's monastery at Maubeuge with her sister Aldetrudis, who became its second abbess.
Madelberta succeeded her sister as abbess and died about 705. She is honoured on 7 September in the Belgian martyrologies.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
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Keep their day. Remember them on September 7 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: September 7
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Madelberta's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Saint Madelberte-Maubeuge.jpg · Leonhard Beck · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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.
Image: Leonhard Beck, Wikimedia Commons (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.
