Pharaildis | |
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| Virgin | |
| Born | Ghent, Belgium |
| Feast | 4 January |
| Attributes | shown with a goose at her feet[1] |
| Patronage | Bruay, France; childhood diseases; difficult marriages; Ghent, Belgium; victims of abuse; widows[2] |
Saint Pharaildis or Pharailde (Dutch: Veerle) is an 8th-century Belgian virgin and patron saint of Ghent. Her dates are imprecise, but she lived to a great age and died on January 5 at ninety.[3]
- ^ Rabenstein, Katherine (March 1999). "Pharaïldis of Ghent". Saint of the Day, January 4. SaintPatrickDC.org. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
- ^ Jones, Terry. "Pharaildis". Patron Saints Index. Archived from the original on 2008-02-12. Retrieved 2007-02-17.
- ^ Engelbert, Omer. The Lives of the Saints. Christopher and Anne Fremantle, trans. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1998. Nihil obstat 1954.