Balda of Jouarre
French abbess and Catholic saint
Feast: 9 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Balda of Jouarre was the third abbess at Jouarre Abbey in north-central France. She was a nun at Jourarre for many years, under her nieces Theodichildis and Agilberta, who were abbesses before her. Her nephew, Agilbert, was bishop of Paris. She might have been related to Sadalberga.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- St. Agilberta Saint Relative
- Theodichildis Saint Relative
- Wikidata Q97340603 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Balda of Jouarre (CC BY-SA)
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