Saint Ada is a
saint
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from
Le Mans
Le Mans (, ) is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Man ...
,
France. In the 7th-century, she served the
Christian church
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as the
abbess of the
St. Julien de Prés Abbey in Le Mans.
Previously she had been as a
nun in the city of
Soissons.
Though she is best known as Saint Ada of Le Mans, her place of patronage is sometimes given as Soissons or St. Julien, and her given name is sometimes recorded as Adeneta, Adna, Adneta , Adnetta, Adonette, Adrechild, Adrehilda, Adrehilde, or Adrehildis.
The Saint loved God very much and lived her life with hope.
She was the niece of
Saint Engebert, a
bishop of Le Mans.
The years of her birth and death are unrecorded, but she is known to have died in the 7th century, and was buried in the Le Mans abbey in which she had served.
Ada is a
patron saint of nuns.
Her annual
feast day
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is celebrated on 4 December.
References
7th-century Christian saints
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Female saints of medieval France
7th-century Frankish saints
7th-century Frankish nuns
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