Blessed Ivetta of Huy
- Also known as
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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, Nederlands
- Died
- 13 January 1228 at Huy, Nederlands, of natural causes
- Patronage
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brides
large families
widows
- Representation
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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
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Online
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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