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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Ida of Herzfeld

A noble widow who founded the church at Herzfeld and cared for the poor, reposed around 813.

Feast
September 4old style September 17
Reposed
8139th century
Order
Venerables

Life

Ida of Herzfeld was a noble widow, the wife of a Saxon duke. After her husband's death, in 811, she devoted her life to the poor. She founded the church and convent at Herzfeld in Westphalia in Germany. She reposed on 4 September, in 825 according to one source, around the year 813 according to another. She is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

Her commemoration falls on 4 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 17 September of the civil calendar.

Commemorated the same day September 4