Angadrisma

Saint Angadrisma
Died ~695 AD
Honored in Roman Catholic Church
Feast October 14
Attributes depicted in art with her face pitted by smallpox or with leprous skin; praying leper
Patronage Beauvais; diocese of Beauvais-Noyon-Senlis; invoked against drought and fire [1]

Angadrisma (Angadrême, Angadresima, Angadreme, Angradesma, Andragasyna) (d. ca. 695) was a seventh century abbess venerated as a saint. A cousin to Bishop Saint Lambert of Lyons, she was educated at Thérouanne by Lambert and Saint Audomare (Omer).

Although she wished to become a nun, she was promised in an arranged marriage to Saint Ansbert of Chaussy. Tradition states that Angadrisma, wishing for a way out, prayed fervently and was stricken with leprosy. She was cured when she was allowed to become a nun and received the veil from Saint Ouen, archbishop of Rouen.

She became abbess of the Benedictine convent of Oroër-des-Vierges, near Beauvais.

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