Baring-Gould’s sources: Belgian and Gallican modern Martyrologies. Venerated in the diocese of Namur, where she is called S. RainoJU, or Rainou.] S. Ragnulf was the daughter of Ado, or Ago, related by blood to Pepin of Herstall. She was brought up in the court of king Dagobert, and at an early age was proposed by her parents to be married to Ebroin, a noble youth, with the consent of the king. The marriage was settled, the day was fixed; but on the preceding evening the bride had disappeared. In fact, shrinking from marriage, its cares, its obligations, and desiring to serve God in virginity, Ragnulf had run away, and hidden herself in the woods. It was not till long after, when, exhausted by want and cold, Ragnulf felt she was dying, that she sent to 324 Lives 0/ the Saints. cntm.

…tell her parents where to find her. The young girl was lying in a forest solitude, in a rude wattled cabin, by a clear spring, in burning fever, racked with cramps. She lived to return the pressure of their hands, smile in their loved faces, and then she breathed forth her pure soul into the hands of a merciful Creator. The relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] of the saint, in a graceful, tapering shrine, are preserved at Aincourt, near Louvain. On the feast of Whit-Sunday, they are carried processionally to the fountain of S. Rainofle, and the water is stirred with them, as though to consecrate them. The fountain is enclosed in a sort of pound of wall-stones, and is sought by the infirm as endowed with healing properties, especially after the waters have been troubled by the descent into them of the relics of the angelic maiden.