Judith of Ringelheim

Judith of Ringelheim was abbess of the convent of canonesses at Ringelheim in Lower Saxony (now a district of the city of Salzgitter), and she reposed on 13 March 1000 or in the early 11th century. She is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and remembered on 13 March.

Her parents were Dietrich of Saxony (died 995) and Friteruna, and her brother was Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim. As abbess she led the convent of canonesses founded in 941 at Ringelheim. As a gift or memorial for her, Bernward made the so-⁠called Ringelheim Crucifix, a monumental wooden sculpture of the crucified Savior of the highest importance in art history, today kept in the cathedral museum of Hildesheim.

The only news of her is an entry in the necrology of the monastery of Saint Michael at Hildesheim, at 13 March, which records the day of death of a Judith, abbess at Ringelen, sister of the blessed Bishop Bernward.

She is a local saint of the West; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known.