Adela of Pfalzel

Saint Adela of Pfalzel
Died734 or 735
Feast24 December

Adela of Pfalzel (d. 734 or 735), sometimes called Adula or Adolana,[1][2] was a Frankish noblewoman, abbess, and Catholic saint. Some sources state that her father was Dagobert II and that her sister was Saint Irmina of Oeren. She married a man named Alberic; after he died, she entered the Benedictine monastery of Pfalzel, near Trier; she might have been the monastery's founder and first abbess. She died in Pfalzel in 735; her feast day is on December 24.

  1. ^ Dunbar, Agnes B.C. (1904). "St Adela (2)". A Dictionary of Saintly Women. Vol. 1. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 3.
  2. ^ Englebert, Omer (1951). The Lives of the Saints. Translated by Fremantle, Christopher; Fremantle, Anne. New York: Barns & Noble. p. 487. ISBN 1-56619-516-0.