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Radegund
Frankish queen consort
SaintFranciaPre-congregation
Feast: 13 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
518
Died
587
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Radegund (Latin: Radegundis; also spelled Rhadegund, Radegonde, or Radigund; c. 520 – 13 August 587) was a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, who founded the Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers. She is the patroness saint of several churches in France and England and of Jesus College, Cambridge (whose full name is "The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge").
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Agnes of Poitiers Saint Pupil
- John the Evangelist Saint“She is the patroness saint of several churches in France and England and of Jesus College, Cambridge (whose full name is "The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge").” — Wikipedia