Subj : December 24th - SS. Irmina, Virgin, and Adela, Widow To : All From : rich Date : Mon Dec 23 2019 09:07:45 From: rich December 24th - SS. Irmina, Virgin, and Adela, Widow d. 734 ACCORDING to 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. 144-154. Quote/s of the Day =E2=80=93 25 December =E2=80=9CCelebrate the feast of Christmas every day, even every moment in the interior temple of your spirit, remaining like a baby in the bosom of the heavenly Father, where you will be reborn each moment in the Divine Word, Jesus Christ.=E2=80=9D --St. Paul of the Cross =E2=80=9CMeister Eckhart once said: =E2=80=98What good is it that Christ was born 2,000 years ago if he is not born now in your heart?' <><><><> Today is the Vigil of the Feast of the Nativity. During the season of Advent we longed for the coming of Christ. In Christmastide we experience the joy of His coming into the world. The Church is full of the Mystery of the Incarnation of Christ. Jesus as God, begotten of the substance of the Father before all the ages and born of the substance of His Mother in the world, is given to us. "And His Name shall be called the Angel of Great Council." By the union of our souls with Jesus born to human life, we are born to the divine life. "As many as received Him to them He gave power to become Sons of God." In the birth of Jesus we learn to know God as His Father: "My Father has entrusted everything into My hands; none knows the Son truly except the Father, and none knows the Father truly except the Son, and those to whom it is the Son's good pleasure to reveal Him." Mother of the Word Incarnate, pray for us. --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .