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7th-century saint from Le Mans, France
Saint Ada
is a
saint
from
Le Mans
,
France
. In the 7th-century, she served the
Christian church
as the
abbess
of the
St. Julien de Pres Abbey
in Le Mans.
[1]
Previously she had been as a
nun
in the city of
Soissons
.
[1]
Though she is best known as
Saint Ada of Le Mans
, her place of patronage is sometimes given as Soissons or St. Julien, and her given name is sometimes recorded as
Adeneta
,
Adna
,
Adneta
,
Adnetta
,
Adonette
,
Adrechild
,
Adrehilda
,
Adrehilde
, or
Adrehildis
.
[1]
The Saint loved God very much and lived her life with hope.
She was the niece of
Saint Engebert
, a
bishop of Le Mans
.
[2]
The years of her birth and death are unrecorded, but she is known to have died in the 7th century, and was buried in the Le Mans abbey in which she had served.
[1]
Ada is a
patron saint
of nuns.
[1]
Her annual
feast day
is celebrated on 4 December.
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