Venerable
Hathumod
A venerable mother honored at Gandersheim in Saxony, who reposed in 874.
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- Reposed
- 8749th century
- Place
- Bad Gandersheim
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Hathumod (840 to November 874) was the first abbess of Gandersheim, a Saxon noblewoman of the family of the Liudolfings. She was brought up from childhood in a convent, at Herford. Her parents, Liudolf and Oda, went to Rome to ask Pope Sergius II for permission to found a new convent and returned with the relics of Popes Anastasius I and Innocent I. She was installed as abbess in 852, at the age of twelve. She never left her convent, where as many as five of her sisters joined her. She died in an epidemic. There was an unsuccessful attempt to promote her as a saint; she is not canonized.