Baldegund

CONCERNING SAINT BALDEGUND, ABBESS.

Baldegundis, Abbess (Saint)

I. B.

The name of Saint Baldegund is inscribed thus in the Martyrology commonly attributed to Bede: Saint Baldegund, Abbess; "And of Baldegund, Abbess." In the same words she is recorded on this day by Rabanus, Notker, Molanus in the Additions to Usuard, Canisius, Wion, Hugo Menard, Benedict Dorganius, and Philip Ferrari. No one records anything else about her, except that our Francis Laherius in the great Menology of Virgins has noted her memory thus: "In France, Saint Baldegund, Virgin and Benedictine Abbess." These things are indeed credible, whether she was a Virgin is not established, if they were confirmed by the testimony of an ancient writer.