Feast December 24
Saint Adela
Religious · Feast December 24
Biography
Adela of Pfalzel, sometimes called Adula or Adolana, was a Frankish noblewoman, abbess, and Catholic saint. Some sources state that her father was Dagobert II and that her sister was Saint Irmina of Oeren. She married a man named Alberic; after he died, she entered the Benedictine monastery of Pfalzel, near Trier; she might have been the monastery's founder and first abbess. She died in Pfalzel in 735. Her feast day is on December 24 in the Orthodox Church; and on January 3 in the Catholic Church.
Feast day
December 24
Death date
734 or 735
Canonization status
Canonized
Feast month
12
Wikidata qid
Q266756
Feast day of month
24
