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Chrodoara
6th/7th-century Frankish noblewoman, duchess of Aquitania, venerated as a Catholic saint
SaintPre-congregation
Feast: 23 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
550
Died
—
unknown
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Saint Chrodoara was a Merovingian noblewoman and traditionally the foundress of the Abbey of Amay, now in Wallonia, Belgium.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Connected on this site
- Arnulf Saint Child, Relative
- Irmina of Oeren Saint“Chrodoara is said to be the mother of Bishop Arnulf of Metz, and she may have been the grandmother of either Hugobert or of his wife Irmina of Oeren, and thus the great-grandmother of Plectrude, wife of Pepin of Herstal, but the evidence is too late to be relied upon.” — Wikipedia
Sources
- Nominis (Conférence des évêques de France) — Sainte Ode, veuve, vénérée à Amay, dans le diocèse de Liège († 634) — Chrodoara is the name on the 7th-century sarcophagus found in 1977 in the collegiate church of Saint-Georges-et-Sainte-Ode at Amay, and she is identified with St Ode of Amay, so named from the 11th century. The church of
- Wikidata Q2966688 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Chrodoara (CC BY-SA)
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