July 4
Berta, widow (+ 725)
Widow and abbess
When she became a widow, Berta retired with her daughters Gertrude and Deotila to the monastery of Blesy, France, which she had founded when she lived with her husband at the court of the Merovingian kings.
Biography
She was abbess for some years; Later a small cell was made next to the abbey church. The ceremony of his confinement was very solemn; Several bishops attended and, after blessing her cell, left the inmate “in the care of the angels.”
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