Bertha of Val d'Or

Bertha of Val d'Or

Infobox Saint
name=Saint Bertha of Val d'Or
birth_date=unknown
death_date=690
feast_day=1 May
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church


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birth_place=France
death_place=France
titles=Virgin and Martyr
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canonized_date=Pre-Congregation
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patronage=against insanity
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Saint Bertha, Abbess of Val d'Or, near Avenay, Reims, d. c. 690.

Bertha was the wife of St. Gumbert, Lord of Champenois, a nobleman of royal blood. Gumbert built a nunnery for his wife and her maidens at Avenay, and retired himself to a monastery on the coast, where he was soon afterwards put to death by pagan marauders.

A legend is that when the people of Avenay suffered from a lack of water, St. Peter appeared to Bertha and showed her a field where there was a good spring which she bought for a pound of silver. It became a holy well which was believed to cure diseases and it supplied both her own nuns and the hamlet of Avenay with water. Bertha was martyred by Gumbert's relatives, who were indignant at the distribution of his money to the poor.

Whether the abbey founded at Avenay followed the Benedictine Rule or the Columban Rule is unknown, even to her main biographer. The whole legend, in fact, is very late and unreliable. St. Bertha's feast is on 1 May.

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