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Venerable

Berlinda of Meerbeke

A Flemish hermitess of Meerbeke, reposed around 702.

Feast
February 3old style February 16
Reposed
7028th century
Place
St Amandus
Order
Venerables

Life

Saint Berlinda of Meerbeke, also called Berlindis or Bellaude, was a niece of Saint Amandus. She became a nun at Moorsel near Aalst in Belgium and later an anchoress at Meerbeke in Flanders. She reposed in 702.

No other details of her life survive. She is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 3 February (new style).

Commemorated the same day February 3