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Cordula
Catholic saint
SaintPre-congregation
Feast: 22 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
400
Died
383
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Cordula of Cologne, also known as Saint Cordula, is an apocryphal saint. She was venerated in the Catholic Church as a companion of St. Ursula and her feast day was on 22 October, but she has not been listed in the Roman Martyrology since 1969 due to doubts about her historicity.
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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.
Sources
- Santi, beati e testimoni — SantaCordula — SantaCordula — Martire a Colonia — Bretagna, ? – Colonia, 304 ca. — feast 21 ottobre
- Wikidata Q445189 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Cordula of Cologne (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.