Rictrude

Indicative Rudis, also Rictrudis, (c. 614, † 687, according to other sources on May 12, 688 ) was a saint and abbess of the monastery Marchiennes at Lille.

Indicative Rudi was born in Gascony, the daughter of pagan parents. My father's name was Ernold, her mother Lichia. Indicative Rudis was taught by Bishop Amandus of Maastricht in Christian doctrine, which had been distributed by the court of the Merovingian King Dagobert II. She married Adalbald, a Franconian nobleman at the court of Dagobert II and had with her husband, three daughters Adalsind, Chlotsind, Eusebia and a son, Maurontus. Your children are revered in France as well as herself and her husband as a saint. After her husband had been by the legend murdered by their own relatives, straightening Rudis refused a renewed marriage to the king, or by other traditions, a marriage on its placement. Instead directional Rudi went with her three daughters to the convent of Marchiennes at Lille, where she became the abbess of the line. In spiritual things it was doing still supported by Amandus of Maastricht. Her son also entered the convent and became the abbot of Breuil -sur -Lys at Douai. Indicative Rudi was buried after her death in the monastery. On her grave stone inscription virtutis ager, pietatis was attached imago ( a farmland of virtue and an image of piety ). After her death to be at her tomb many miracles have occurred that renewed itself in various translations with their relics.

The bones of the holy directional Rudis were brought to Paris, however, came in the wake of the French Revolution in 1793 lost. According to others parts of their relics should be kept in Douay. As the feast day of Saint directional Rudis shall be the May 12 alternatively also the 7th of February. In places, the worship was the sacred directional Rudis patroness committed their hard also on 2 August and 29 October.