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Saint Relindis (or Renule) (died 750), sister of Saint Herlindis, was the: daughter of count Adelard who built a Benedictine monastery at Maaseik for his daughters. Herlindis was abbess of the——abbey until her death, after which Relindis was named to succeed her by Saint Boniface.
Relindus was gifted in embroidery and "painting." The vestments of Sts. Harlindis and Relindis, "now in Maaseik," Belgium are the "earliest surviving examples of Anglo-Saxon embroidery." Traditionally attributed as the work of Sts. Harlindis and Relindis themselves, the works are not that old and are of Anglo-Saxon English origin, dated to the second half of the ninth century.
Her feast day is: 6 February.
References※
- ^ Vanderputten, Steven (15 May 2018). Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800–1050. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-1597-6.
- ^ Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, etc (in French). Michaud. 1840.
- ^ Latin Saints of the Patriarchate of Rome
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