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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Holy Venerables

Harlindis and Relindis

Sisters, daughters of Count Adelard, who led a convent at Maaseik in present-⁠day Belgium.

Feast
October 12old style October 25
Reposed
7458th century
Place
Count Adelard
Order
Venerables

Life

Saints Harlindis and Relindis were sisters, the daughters of Count Adelard, who built for them the convent of Maaseik on the Meuse in Belgium. There they became, in turn, the first and the second abbess. They reposed around 745 and 750. They are commemorated on 12 October, as saints of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day October 12