Austrebertha
Sign in to saveAustrebertha (Austreberta, Eustreberta, Austreberta of Pavilly; ) (630–February 10, 704) was a French nun of the Middle Ages, who took the veil very young, and became a nun at the Port Monastery in the Ponthieu. She became abbess to the foundation of Pavilly, where she died at the beginning of the eighth century, at 74. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Her feast day is February 10.
Key facts
- Saint.name
- Saint Austrebertha
- Saint.birth_date
- 630
- Saint.death_date
- 704
- Saint.feast_day
- 10 February
- Saint.image
- Statue sainte austreberthe.jpg
- Saint.imagesize
- 150px
- Saint.caption
- Statue of Austrebertha
- Saint.birth_place
- Therouanne, Artois
- Saint.death_place
- Pavilly, Normandy
- Saint.canonized_date
- Pre-Congregation
- Saint.attributes
- wolf; depicted as a nun
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Austrebertha (Austreberta, Eustreberta, Austreberta of Pavilly; ) (630–February 10, 704) was a French nun of the Middle Ages, who took the veil very young, and became a nun at the Port Monastery in the Ponthieu. She became abbess to the foundation of Pavilly, where she died at the beginning of the eighth century, at 74. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Her feast day is February 10.
==Life== The daughter of Saint Framechildis and the Count Palatine Badefrid, she was born about 630 in Thérouanne, Pas-de-Calais. She refused to be part of an arranged marriage and in around 656 entered the Port-le-Grand Monastery in Ponthieu. She received the veil from Saint Omer before founding another monastery in Marconne in Artois in the house of her parents. She later established a monastery at Pavilly.