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Also known as Saint Gudula, Gudula of Brussels, Goedele

Gudula of Brabant, also known as Saint Gudula (ca. 646–712), was a Christian saint who is venerated in Catholic and Orthodox churches. In Brabant, she is usually called Goedele or Goule; (, later ''''; ; ). Her name is connected to several places: Moorsel (where she lived), Brussels (where a chapter in her honour was founded in 1047) and Eibingen (where the relic of her skull is conserved).

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Saint.honorific_prefix
Saint
Saint.name
Gudula of Brabant
Saint.death_date
680–714
Saint.feast_day
8 January, 19 January in the Diocese of Ghent
Saint.venerated_in
Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church
Saint.image
Gudula.jpg
Saint.caption
From New York Public Library, MA 092, fol. 251, Haarlem Gradual of 1494, depiction of Saint Gudula bearing a lantern which the demon endeavors to extinguish
Saint.birth_place
Pagus of Brabant
Saint.death_place
Hamme, Francia
Saint.canonized_place
Pre-Congregation
Saint.attributes
depicted as a woman with lantern which the devil tries to blow out
Saint.patronage
Brussels, single, laywomen
Saint.major_shrine
Eibingen St. Michael and Gudula Cathedral

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Saint Gudula
date of birth
0646-01-01
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Gudula of Brabant, also known as Saint Gudula (ca. 646–712), was a Christian saint who is venerated in Catholic and Orthodox churches. In Brabant, she is usually called Goedele or Goule; (, later ''''; ; ). Her name is connected to several places: Moorsel (where she lived), Brussels (where a chapter in her honour was founded in 1047) and Eibingen (where the relic of her skull is conserved).

==Life== Gudula was born around 646 in the pagus of Brabant (in present-day Belgium). According to her 11th-century biography (Vita Gudilae), written by Onulfus of Hautmont, a monk of Hautmont Abbey between 1048 and 1051, she was the daughter of a duke of Lotharingia called Witger and Saint Amalberga. Her mother embraced the religious life in Maubeuge Abbey. Gudula had three sisters, Saint Pharaildis, Saint Reineldis and Saint Ermelinde, and one brother, Saint Emebertus. She received the veil from the hands of Saint Aubert, Bishop of Cambrai (d. about 668).

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