Venerable
Wiltrudis of Bergen
A Western holy woman associated with Bergen, reposed around 986.
- Feast
- January 6old style January 19
- Reposed
- 98610th century
- Place
- Bergen
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Wiltrudis of Bergen was the founder and first abbess of the convent of Bergen near Neuburg in Germany. She reposed around 986.
After the death of her husband, around 947, she was left a widow, and around 976 she built the convent at Bergen, where she became a nun herself and was its first abbess.
She is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 6 January (new style).
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