St. Madelberta

Building a community where women could live the Gospel together.

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September 7 · Virgin, Abbess

St. Madelberta

St. Madelberta

Building a community where women could live the Gospel together.

Traditional feast

September 7
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

September 7
Secondary source · Wikipedia

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Virgin
Abbess

Their story

Adapted in modern English from Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints · little is known

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.

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. Building a community where women could live the Gospel together.

Keep their day. Remember them on September 7 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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The full original · 0 words

Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Belgian and Gallican Martyrologies. The Acts of S. Madelberta consist of a series of pious sentiments, with no facts, and might do very well for any other saintly Abbess. For facts we must go to the lives of S. Vincent Madelgar and S. Aldetrudis.] Madelberta of Maubeuge belonged to a family of saints. She was daughter of S. Vincent Madelgar, and of S. Waldetrude, sister of S. Aldegund. Her brothers were S. Landric and S. Dentelin, and her sister S. Aldetrude. S. Madelberta was quite a little child when taken to the monastery of S. Aldegund, her aunt, to be trained for the Lord. She died Abbess of Maubeuge. Nothing more is known of her.

Feast days

Feast: September 7

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Sources & notes

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Credits

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.