Amalia

Venerable Amalia (in Flemish Amalberga) lived in the seventh century in Belgium, in the province of Brabant, whose capital is today Brussels, at a time when the West was still Orthodox in faith. She was the sister (according to others the niece) of Saint Pepin, duke of Brabant, count of Landen and chief courtier of the Frankish kings of the Carolingian line. She married Count Witger and was the mother of Saint Emebert, bishop of Cambrai, Venerable Gudula, Venerable Martyr Reineldis and Venerable Pharaildis.

After a virtuous life in the world, distinguished by works of love and charity, she became a nun in old age at the Benedictine monastery of Maubeuge, where she reposed piously in the year 690. A hymn calls her the beauty of nuns and a champion of ascetic struggle, who despised the glory of men and followed Christ, her bridegroom.

As a saint of the undivided Church, she is commemorated on 10 July in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).