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  • Story: St Begga De Landin

    <font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Sans Serif" size="2">Saint Begga, patron of Benjuines<br> <br> Memorial <br> 17 December <br> Profile -Daughter of Blessed Pepin I of Landen, mayor of the palace, and Saint Ida of Nivelles. Sister of Saint Gertrude of Nivelles. Married Ansegilius, son of Saint Arnulf of Metz. Mother of Pepin of Herstal, founder of the Carolingian dynasty of rulers in France, in 635, and of Martin of Laon. <br> <br> On the death of her husband in 691 in a hunting accident, she took the veil, founded founded seven churches, and founded in (691-692) a convent at Andenne, near Namur, Belgium. The first nuns came from Nivelles and introduced Irish monastic customs. Begga&#39;s remains are preserved at Andenne; her vita was written in the late 11th century. She is invoked for the cure of hernias and of infants&#39; diseases. Although she has been the patroness of the Beguines since the 14th century, she was not their foundress. <br> <br> <br> Died 693 at Ardenne on the Meuse River <br> Canonized Pre-Congregation </font></font>

  • Story: Saint Begga

    Begga<div>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<div><div style="z-index: 100; right: 100px; : absolute; : 0px"><div style="font-size: 87%; text-align: right">&bull;&nbsp;<em>Interested&nbsp;in&nbsp;contributing&nbsp;to&nbsp;Wikipedia?</em>&nbsp;&bull;</div></div></div><div>Jump to: navigation, search</div><!-- start content --><p><em>Note: There is a similarly named Saint Bega, also known as Saint Bee, sometimes confused with Saint Begga.</em></p><div><div style="width: 182px"> <div><div style="float: right"><span style="display: inline-block; font-size: 0px; background-image: none; vertical-align: middle; cursor: hand; border-width: 2px; border-color: #0000ff"></span></div></div></div></div><p><strong>Begga</strong> (also <strong>Begue</strong>) (615 &ndash; 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, is that 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><span>Marriage and issue</span></p><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><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 anc&ecirc;tres de Charlemagne</em>, 1989, Christian Settipani </li></ul><!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwiki:pcache:idhash:674313-0!1!0!default!!en!2 and timestamp 20071018092606 --><div>Retrieved from &quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begga&quot;</div></div>

 
 
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