St. Adele
Feast: 24 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Adela of Pfalzel (d. 734 or 735), sometimes called Adula or Adolana, was a Frankish noblewoman, abbess, and Catholic saint. Some sources state that her father was Dagobert II and that her sister was Saint Irmina of Oeren. She married a man named Alberic; after he died, she entered the Benedictine monastery of Pfalzel, near Trier; she might have been the monastery's founder and first abbess. She died in Pfalzel in 735. Her feast day is on December 24 in the Orthodox Church; and on January 3 in the Catholic Church.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Dagobert II Saint“Some sources state that her father was Dagobert II and that her sister was Saint Irmina of Oeren.” — Wikipedia
- Irmina of Oeren Saint“Some sources state that her father was Dagobert II and that her sister was Saint Irmina of Oeren.” — Wikipedia
- Santi e Beati — Sant'Adele di Pfalzel; Nominis — "Sant'Adele di Pfalzel, Abbadessa benedettina, sec. VIII - m. 730, festa 24 dicembre"; Nominis: "Sainte Adèle — abbesse bénédictine à Pfalzel".
- Wikidata Q95160618 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — St. Adele (CC BY-SA)
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