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Saint Adelaide of Guelders

Also known as: Adelaide of Vilich; Adelaide of Bellich; Adelaide of Willich; Adelaide of Münster; Alice…; Adelheid…; Adalheide…

Saint
Post-Congregation

Feast Day: 5 February; 15 June on some calendars

Born: C.960 in Geldern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Died: 5 February 1015 at Our Lady of the Capitol convent at Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany of natural causes; buried in Villich, Germany

Beatified: 27 January 1966 by Pope Paul VI (cultus confirmation)

Biography

Saint Adelaide of Guelders, daughter of Count Megingoz of Guelders, entered the Ursuline convent in Cologne, Germany. She became a Benedictine nun

Patron Saint Of

Against eye diseases
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