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A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

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May 13 · Virgin

St. Rolenda

St. Rolenda

A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

Traditional feast

May 13
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Virgin

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. A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

Keep their day. Remember them on May 13 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Belgian Martyrologies and the Scottish Menology of Dempster. Authority A life written in the 12th century, based on tradition, wholly fabulous.] S. Rolenda is said to have been the daughter of a Erank prince named Desiderius; and her hand to have been sought by a Scottish prince then serving in the court of the Frank monarch. In alarm the maiden fled to Cologne, where she purposed joining S. Ursula and her party of eleven thousand virgins, who she heard were on their way to Rome. But she fell sick and died at Gerpines, a village on a stream flowing into the Sambre above Namur. The relics are preserved at Gerpines and attract numerous pilgrims, and she is invoked against gravel and lumbago. A procession with her relics takes place annually on Whitsun Monday.

Feast days

Feast: May 13

Nine days · Free

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Rolenda's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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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.