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Gertrude of Nivelles, OSB (also spelled Geretrude, Geretrudis, Gertrud; c. 628 [3] – 17 March 659) was a seventh-century abbess who, with her mother Itta, founded the Abbey of Nivelles, now in Belgium.
Nivelles Abbey was founded in 640 by the widow of Pepin of Landen, Itta of Metz, along with her daughter, Gertrude of Nivelles, with the support of the bishop, Saint Amand. The abbey began as a community of nuns; they were joined later by Irish monks from Mont Saint-Quentin Abbey, sent by Abbot Foillan to give support to the nuns.
The Collegiate Church of St. Gertrude (French: Collégiale Sainte-Gertrude) is a Roman Catholic collegiate church in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium, which was built in the 11th century. It is dedicated to Saint Gertude, the patron saint of cats.
Saint Gertrude of Nivelles (Fresco in Knivsta kyrka, Knivsta, Sweden) St. Withburga, depicted in a rood screen in Dereham.
Gertrude of Nivelles (626–659), founded the Abbey of Nivelles located in present-day Belgium Gertrude the Great (1256–1302), German Cistercian, mystic, and theologian Religious institutions and schools
Today, it is more commonly ... Gertrude of Nivelles, abbess of Nivelles (died 658) presented in The Life of St. Geretrude (in Fouracre and Gerberding 1996)
Saint Gertrude of Nivelles was one of the patron saints of travellers and merchants. She was a Benedictine nun, the daughter of Pepin of Landen and the first abbess of Nivelles Abbey in what is now Belgium. She died in 659 and was venerated as a saint even in her lifetime for her holiness.
This small church or chapel was dedicated to Saint Gertrude of Nivelles. It is the smallest of the former churches in Visby. It is the smallest of the former churches in Visby. An excavation carried out in 1935 determined that it dates from the second half of the 15th century.