✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: April 9

St. Waudru

Abbess · d. c. 688

Patron of Mons

A noblewoman of the Frankish court who, with her husband's agreement, left wealth and rank to found a convent around which the city of Mons grew up.

Her whole family became saints — husband, sister, and children alike — and the town of Mons in Belgium grew around the religious house she founded.

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