Hildegund
Praemonstratension abbess
Feast: 6 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Hildegund (c. 1130–1183) was a Praemonstratensian abbess. Born to nobility, her father was Count Herman of Lidtberg and her mother Countess Hedwig. She was married to Count Lothair of Meer (now Meerbusch), in the modern region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Together they had three children, one of whom did not survive into adulthood.
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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.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Connected on this site
- Hadewych of Meer Blessed Child
- Hermann Joseph Saint“At the age of twelve, her son Hermann Joseph was sent to the Premonstratensians (Norbertine) at Steinfeld Abbey, who sent him to the Netherlands to study.” — Wikipedia
- Butler's Lives of the Saints - St Hildegund, widow, 6 February — Hildegund of Meer, Premonstratensian, died 1183; Butler keeps her on 6 February, the feast in our record.
- Wikidata Q1479733 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Hildegund (widow) (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.