Blessed Ivetta of Huy

Also known as

• Jufta of Huy
• Jutta of Huy
• Yvette of Huy

Memorial

• 13 January

Profile

Born to family that was wealthy but indifferent to the faith. Forced into an arranged marriage at age 13. Mother of three, though one died in childhood. Widowed at age 18. She turned away all suitors to care for lepers for eleven years while she raised her children. Had an ongoing dispute with her father over her charitable spending, which he considered excessive. With her children grown, she retired from the world to become an anchoress her remaining years. Had mystical gifts including the ability to read hearts and visions of distant events. Miraculously received Communion. Converted her father and one of her children.

Born

• 1158 at Huy, Belgium

Died

• 13 January 1228 at Huy, Belgium, of natural causes

Patronage

• brides
• parents of large families
• widows

Representation

• woman in an ecstacy in a hut
• woman in religious habit with a red-hot tripod nearby
• woman in widow‘s weeds
• woman tending to lepers

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Ivetta of Huy”. Saints.SQPN.com. 12 January 2010. Web. 26 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-ivetta-of-huy/>