Sadalberga

Saint Sadalberga (Salaberga) founded and led a convent at Laon in France, and reposed on a 22 September, in 655 according to some sources, around 665 according to others.

She was born in the early seventh century in a village near Langres, of a noble family; her father, Gundoin, was Duke of Alsace and counsellor to King Dagobert I. As a child she was healed of blindness by a saint, according to an English Orthodox calendar by Saint Eustace. She married very young, but her husband died after only two months. Her second husband was Saint Blandinus and they had five children, all of whom entered the religious life, among them Saint Anstrudis. When the children were grown, husband and wife agreed to separate and enter monastic life. Sadalberga lived at Poulangey, then founded with her inheritance the convent of Saint John the Baptist at Laon, a double monastery, where she remained abbess; her daughter Anstrudis succeeded her.

Her life was written in the year 680 by an anonymous author. She is said to have worked many miracles and had many visions, among them one that foretold her end a hundred days beforehand. She is commemorated on 22 September, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.