St. Regina, Countess

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St. Regina

St. Regina, Countess

Traditional feast

July 1
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

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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

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Later Belgian Martyrologies, as Molanus and Mirseus. Saussaye in his Gallican Martyrology. Authority: — The lections lor her festival in the office book of Denain, near Valenciennes.] S. Regina, of S. Reine, as she is called in France, was bom of noble parents, in the reign of Pepin, father of Charlemagne, and was given in marriage to Adalbert, one of the nobles at court, a man of great virtue, by whom she had ten daughters, amongst whom was S. Ragnfried (Oct 8th). In the county of Ostrevandt or French Flanders, the pious couple and their daughters laboured to make the people happy by the gentleness of their rule, and their solicitude for their spiritual and material prosperity. On the death of Adalbert, Regina founded the abbey of Denain, near Valenciennes, and constituted her daughter Ragnfried the first abbess. She lived in the exercise of every virtue till her death. She and Adalbert were laid in the church of Denain, and their daughter was afterwards laid at their side.

Feast days

Feast: July 1

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Sources & notes

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Credits

Image: StRegina.JPG · Sebastian Netzmeister · 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: Sebastian Netzmeister, 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.