A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Gertrude (6)

by Agnes B. C. Dunbar

St. Gertrude (6), Monday after Ascension Day, V. M. at Vauxdiuellet, or Belval, in Lorraine, where there is a legend that she was murdered by her brothers on account of her opposition to a marriage with a heathen prince, arranged for her by her family. The Bollandists consider the story fabulous, and think the saint honoured at Belval is a niece of St. Gertrude of Nivelle. AA.SS.