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Wivina

12th-century Christian saint

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Feast: 17 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born

1109

Died

1168

Beatified

—

not needed: before formal processes

Canonised

By tradition

recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Wivina (1103–1168) was a Benedictine abbess. Born in Oisy, France, she refused all offers of marriage, becoming, aged 23, a hermit at Groot-Bijgaarden, near Brussels. She later accepted land from Count Godfrey of Brabant on which she built a monastery, serving as its first abbess.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Sources

Wikidata Q1928912 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
English Wikipedia — Wivina (abbess) (CC BY-SA)

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