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Venerable

Severa of Oehren

Abbess of Oehren

Abbess of Oehren near Trier, reposed around 750.

Feast
July 20old style August 2
Reposed
7508th century
Place
Oehren

Life

Venerable Severa of Oehren was abbess of the convent of Oehren, near Trier, in present-⁠day Germany. She reposed around the year 750. The surviving sources say no more about her life.

She is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 20 July (new style, Western calendar). She is not to be confused with Saint Severa of Villeneuve near Bourges, sister of Bishop Modoald of Trier, who is remembered on the same day.

Commemorated the same day July 20