Venerable
Amelberga of Susteren
Abbess of Susteren
Abbess of Susteren in the Netherlands, who reposed around 900.
- Feast
- November 21old style December 4
- Reposed
- 9009th century
- Place
- Susteren Abbey
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Amelberga of Susteren was the Benedictine abbess of Susteren Abbey in the Netherlands and reposed around 900.
According to tradition she raised the three daughters of Zwentibold, king of Lorraine. The earliest witness to her veneration is a relic inventory of the monastery from 1147, which lists a drinking cup of hers; an inventory of 1668 also mentions part of her skull wrapped in silk. An eighteenth-century inventory notes a silver goblet from which people with sore throats drank beer. Her remains are kept in the former abbey church at Susteren, which was dedicated to her in the nineteenth century.
The Orthodox calendar commemorates her on 21 November (New Calendar) as a saint of the undivided Church; in the Roman Catholic Church her day is 27 November.
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