SAINT
saint-gertrude-of-aldenberg
A saint of the Catholic Church
biography
Blessed Gertrude of Aldenberg, was a German noblewoman and abbess. She was the daughter of Elizabeth of Hungary and of Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia. She became a Premonstratensian canoness regular at the Abbey of Aldenberg, near Wetzlar, in the Diocese of Trier, where she spent much of her life leading the community as its abbess. She was beatified in 1728, her feast is August 13.
feast Day
08-13
birth Date
October 1227
death Date
13 August 1297
canonization Status
beatified
feast Month
8
feast Day Of Month
13

