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Bilihildis
benedictine abbess and Frankish saint
SaintFull write-upBenedictinesPre-congregation
Feast: 27 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
700
Died
734
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Mainz in the Rhineland, in Germany, Saint Bilihildis, virgin, founder of a monastery, in which she died piously.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: she has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 27 November as the founder of a monastery at Mainz, where she died.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 27 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q477895 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Bilihildis of Altmünster (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.