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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Adelwiva

A saint of the West, honored by the undivided Church.

Feast
January 25old style February 7
Era
10th century

Life

Adelwiva (also called Adelviva, Adelvina or Ethelvive) was the mother of Saint Poppo of Stavelot, and she died around 1000 or 1015 at Verdun. She is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

Adelwiva and her husband, Tezerinus (Titzekin), came from noble families of Flanders and lived at Deinze, where Poppo was born in 978. The son received a pious upbringing from his mother. After her husband's death, Adelwiva entered a convent and lived as an enclosed anchoress.

Her day of remembrance is, like her son's, 25 January. She is a saint of the West; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known.

Commemorated the same day January 25