Adeloga of Kitzingen

Saint Adeloga of Kitzingen, also called Hadeloga or Adela, was a daughter of Charles Martel and the first abbess of the monastery of Kitzingen in Germany. She reposed around 745.

She was a princess of singular beauty, sought in marriage, but she refused, wishing to devote herself to God. Her father treated her with studied brutality and public insult; she went to his chaplain, her spiritual director, for support, and Charles Martel expelled them both from his palace. The two journeyed to Kitzingen, in modern Bavaria, a wild and desert place, where they built a convent. Adeloga was its first abbess, and the convent attracted virgins and followed the rules of Saint Benedict and Saint Scholastica. Later Charles Martel was reconciled with her, visited her and gave lands to her convent. After her repose she was succeeded by Saint Thecla. An ancient life of her was written by an unknown author.

She is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 2 February (new style).