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Lutgardis

Flemish saint

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Lutgardis of Aywières, OSB was a Catholic Benedictine nun from the medieval Low Countries in the Holy Roman Empire. She was born in Tongeren, known as Tongres in French, and entered monastic life at the age of twelve. During her life, various miracles were attributed to her, and she is known to have experienced religious ecstasy. Her feast day is 16 June.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lutgardis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.