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Chrodoara

6th/7th-century Frankish noblewoman, duchess of Aquitania, venerated as a Catholic saint

SaintPre-congregation

Feast: 23 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
550
Died
unknown
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Saint Chrodoara was a Merovingian noblewoman and traditionally the foundress of the Abbey of Amay, now in Wallonia, Belgium.

Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.

The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Connected on this site

  • Arnulf Saint Child, Relative
  • Irmina of Oeren Saint
    “Chrodoara is said to be the mother of Bishop Arnulf of Metz, and she may have been the grandmother of either Hugobert or of his wife Irmina of Oeren, and thus the great-grandmother of Plectrude, wife of Pepin of Herstal, but the evidence is too late to be relied upon.” — Wikipedia
Sources
  • Wikidata Q2966688 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Chrodoara (CC BY-SA)

Not yet written up in full: no Church source with an account of this person has been found yet. The name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.

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