Saint Adela of Messines

Memorial

• 8 September

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Married to Count Baldwin IV of Flanders. Widowed. Benedictine nun, receiving the veil from Pope Alexander II. She retired to a quiet, prayerful life at Messines convent near Ypres, Belgium.

Died

• 1071 in Ypres, Flanders, Belgium

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Adela of Messines”. Saints.SQPN.com. 1 May 2012. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-adela-of-messines/>