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Also known as

• Ida of Metz
• Iduberga…
• Ita…
• Itta…
• Itte…

Memorial

• 8 May

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Daughter of Bishop Arnoald of Metz. Sister of Saint Modoald of Trier and Saint Severa. Married to Saint Pepin of Landen. Mother of Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, Saint Begga of Ardenne, and Grimoald, mayor of the palace. Grandmother of Pepin of Herstal. Friend of Saint Amand of Maastricht. Widowed, she built a Benedictine double monastery at Nivelles, Belgium under the leadership of her daughter, Saint Gertrude; Ida spent the rest of her life there as a nun.

Born

• 592

Died

• 8 May 652 in Nivelles, Belgium of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against erysipelas
• against toothache
• erysipelas patients
• toothache sufferers
• –
• Nivelles, Belgium

MLA Citation

• “Saint Ida of Nivelles“. CatholicSaints.Info. 11 March 2024. Web. 19 April 2024. <>