Subj : December 24th - Saint Irmina of Oehren To : All From : rich Date : Wed Dec 23 2020 09:05:32 From: rich December 24th - Saint Irmina of Oehren Also known as Irmina of Trier Irmina of Treves Irma=E2=80=A6 Ermina=E2=80=A6 Hermione=E2=80=A6 Ymena=E2=80=A6 Memorial 24 December 3 January in Luxembourg 30 January in the diocese of Trier, Germany d. 734 ACCORDING to the tradition the Princess Irmina, called a daughter of St. Dagobert II, was to have been married to a Count Herman. All preparations had been made for the wedding at Trier when one of the princess's officers, who was himself in love with her, inveigled Herman to a steep cliff outside the town and there threw his rival and himself over the edge. After this tragic end to her hopes Irmina obtained her father's permission to become a nun. Dagobert founded = or restored for her a convent near Trier. St. Irmina was a zealous supporter of the missionary labours of St. Willibrord, and in 698 gave him the manor on which he founded his famous monastery of Echternach. This gift is said to have been in recognition of his having miraculously stayed an epidemic that was devastating her nunnery, and is about the only thing that seems certain concerning Irmina. St. Adela, another daughter of Dagobert II, became a nun after the death of her husband, Alberic. She is probably the widow Adula, who about 691-692 was living at Nivelles with her little son, the future father of St. Gregory of Utrecht. She founded a monastery at Palatiolum, now Pfalzel, near Trier; she became its first abbess and governed it in holiness for many years. Adela seems to have been among the disciples of St. Boniface, and a letter in his correspondence from Abbess Aelitled of Whitby to an Abbess Adola is addressed to her. St. Irmina is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology, but the cultus accorded popularly to St. Adela has not been confirmed and she is not venerated liturgically. The story of Irmina's early life, recounted only by the monk Thiofr= id nearly 400 years after her death, is probably quite fabulous. There is evidence that part of it is based upon a forged charter. The Latin Life of St. Irmina, edited by Weiland in MGH., Scriptores, vol. xxiii, pp. 48-50, is, however, the work of Thiofrid, and not of Theodoric nearly a century later. See for all this the Analecta Bollandiana, vol. viii (1889), pp. 285-286 and also C. Wampach, Grundherrschaft Echternach, vol. i, Pt (1929), pp. 113-135, and cf. the documents printed in Pt ii (1930). On Adela consult DHGr vol. i, c. 525. See further, E. Ewig in St. Bonifatius (1954), p. 418 and C. Wampach, "Irmina von Oeren und ihre Familie" in Trierer Zeitschrift, vol. iii (1928), pp. 144-I54. Saint Quote: The Virgin today brings into the world the Eternal And the earth offers a cave to the Inaccessible. The angels and shepherds praise him And the magi advance with the star, For you are born for us, Little Child, God eternal! -- Kontakion of Saint Romanos the Melodist Bible Quote: O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when thou didst pass through the desert: 9 The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.=C2 (Psalm 67:8-9) <><><><> The easy roads are crowded, And the level roads are jammed; The pleasant little rivers With the drifting folks are crammed, But off yonder where it's rocky, Where you get a better view, You will find the ranks are thinning And the travelers are few. Where the going's smooth and pleasant You will always find the throng, For the many, more's the pity, Seem to like to drift along. But the steps that call for courage And the task that's hard to do, In the end results in glory For the never-wavering few. --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .