Saint Adela of Messines
- Memorial
- 8 September
- Profile
- Married to Count Baldwin IV of Flanders.
Widowed.
Benedictine nun, receiving the veil from Pope Alexander II.
Retired to a quiet, prayerful life at Messines convent near Ypres, Belgium.
- Died
- 1071 in Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints
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