"Saint" Begga
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Born: Landen, Liege, Belgium
Died: Ardenne, , , France
Begga<div>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<div>Jump to: navigation, search</div><!-- start content --><em>Note: There is a similarly named Saint Bega, also known as Saint Bee, sometimes confused with Saint Begga.</em> <em>Distinguish from "beggar".</em> <em>Saint Begga</em><div><div><span></span></div></div><br>Born615DiedDecember 17, 693Venerated inRoman Catholic ChurchFeastSeptember 6 and December 17 Saints Portal<p><strong>Saint Begga</strong> (also <strong>Begue</strong>) (615 – December 17, 693) was the daughter of Pepin of Landen, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, and his wife Itta. On the death of her husband, she took the veil, founded several churches, and built a convent at Andenne on the Meuse River (Andenne sur Meuse) where she spent the rest of her days as abbess.</p><p>Some hold that the Beguine movement which came to light in the 12th century was actually founded by St. Begga; and the church in the beguinage of Lier, Belgium, has a statue of St. Begga standing above the inscription: <em>St. Begga, our foundress</em>. The Lier beguinage dates from the 13th century. More than likely, however, the Beguines derived their name from that of the priest Lambert le Begue, under whose protection the witness and ministry of the Beguines flourished.</p><p></p><span>[edit]</span> <span>Marriage and issue</span><p>She married Ansegisel, son of Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, and had three children:</p><ul><li>Pepin of Heristal </li><li>Martin of Laon </li><li>Clotilda of Heristal, who was married to Theuderic III of the Franks </li></ul><p></p><span>[edit]</span> <span>Veneration</span><p>She is commemorated as a saint on her feast days, September 6 and December 17.</p><p></p><span>[edit]</span> <span>References</span><ul><li>Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. <em>The Penguin Dictionary of Saints</em>. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0140513124. </li><li><em>Les ancêtres de Charlemagne</em>, 1989, Christian Settipani </li></ul><!-- NewPP limit report Preprocessor node count: 111/1000000 Post-expand include size: 800/2048000 bytes Template argument size: 201/2048000 bytes #ifexist count: 0/500 --><!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwiki:pcache:idhash:674313-0!1!0!default!!en!2 and timestamp 20080309211243 --><div>Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begga"</div><div><div>Categories: <span>Year of birth unknown</span> | <span>693 deaths</span> | <span>Frankish women</span> | <span>Frankish saints</span> | <span>Franks</span> | <span>Frankish peop</span></div></div></div>