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 fire, and blazed up. Adeltrude rushed to the fire, and took off the pot, which she placed safely on the ground without burning her hands or arms in the least—a miracle which was attributed to her great devotion to the Virgin Mary. In 660 she succeeded St. Aldegundis as abbess of the convent of Maubeuge. Boll., AA.SS., Feb. 25. Martin, Feb. 25.

St. Adeltrude (2), March 19, V. 7th century. Daughter of Allowin, afterwards St. Bavo, patron of Ghent. Niece of. Adeltrude showed very early signs of piety. An angel foretold that she should never have any children, but should bring forth many good works. Her father was a worldly and dissipated man, until he was converted by the preaching of St. Amandus. He then betook himself to a life of solitude and penance, and eventually gave his estate to Amandus, to found a monastery and church, which, in 1559, became the cathedral of St Bavon, of Ghent. Bavo died about 657. Boll., AA.SS., Mar. 19, "Lives of St. Bavo and St. Landoald." Butler, Lives. Baillet, Vies. Wion, Lignum Vitæ. Le Glay, Gaule Belgique.

St. Adeltrude (3), Nov. 14. 9th century. Wife of a count of Aurillac, who built a church and abbey there, under the invocation of St. Clement and rule of St Benedict. In 855 they had a son, Gerald, whom they brought up so piously that he became a great saint. Adeltrude was buried in St Clement's Church, where her miracles drew a great concourse of pilgrims, until the 16th century, when the Calvinists dispersed her relics. P.B. Butler, "St. Gerald," Oct 13.

St. Adelviva, Jan. 25. 1048. Mother of St. Poppo, abbot She married Tizekin, a valiant warrior of Flanders. Her son was a seven-months' child, and such a poor little specimen of humanity that he would have died as soon as he was born had not his pious grandmother, by direction of God, or at least of the common sense with which He had endowed her, wrapped him in a very soft woollen cloth, and taken great care of him until he had attained the size and strength of other babies. Towards the end of the 10th century, Tizekin was killed at Hasbain, in Brabant, in a war between Arnulf, count of Flanders, and the sons of Ragner, or Regnier, the Long-necked, count of Mons and Valenciennes. Adelviva was left a young widow. Poppo, like other lads of his rank, went to the wars as soon as he was old enough. He had not long been a soldier when he joined some monks in a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. After his return, he persuaded his mother to take the veil. According to Menard, she lived for some time in a nunnery at Verdun; and afterwards in a cell adjoining the monastery of St. Vitus, in the same town, for it was an ancient custom, long continued in the Order of St. Benedict, that, attached to a monastery of men, were a few cells, called clusas, or inclusoria, in which one or more nuns might live. They were under the rule of the abbot, and none but he had access to them. Her miracles began before she had retired from secular life. She relighted an extinguished candle by merely taking it in her hand while she was at her prayers. While she prayed at the tomb of St. Cyricus, he and St. Amandus of Utrecht and many other saints appeared to her. Poppo became abbot of Stavelo, a monastery founded by St. Remacle, in the 7th century. A contemporary Life of St. Poppo, by Everhelm, abbot of Haumont, is preserved by Mabillon, AA.SS., O.S.B. Mézeray, ''Hist. de France. Ruinart, Acta. Saussaye, Mart. Gallicanum'', calls Adelviva "Saint." Bucelinus and Menard say "Blessed."

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St. Adeodata, July 5. Tamayo, say the Bollandists, is a wonderful digger up of saints, and appears to consider that St. Gregory the Great has canonized every person whose name he mentions in his writings. Tamayo calla Adeodata a Benedictine nun, and says she was adorned with supernatural gifts, and died in Etruria. Boll., AA.SS.

St. Adfalduid or, Sept. 30, V. Daughter of St. Romaric, Dec. 8. A holy nun with her sister,