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Bas-relief Icon of St.
Plectrudis, Queen, Foundress of St. Mary's-in-Capitol, Cologne, Germany
Feast: Oct. 31
St. Plectrudis was a Frankish
princess, born about the year 660, who married King Pippin. She left
the court, however, and became the foundress of the renowned convent of
St.-Maria im Kapitol in Cologne, Germany, working there at the same
time St. Willibrord was evangelising. This image appears at her shrine
in Cologne.
Icon: 11th century, the shrine
of the Saint at her threshold in Cologne.
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