Gudula

Saint Gudula of Brabant
From New York Public Library, MA 092, fol. 251, Haarlem Gradual of 1494, depiction of Saint Gudula bearing a lantern which the demon endeavors to extinguish
Born	c. 646 Pagus of Brabant
Died	680–714 Hamme, Francia
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church[1]
Major shrine	Eibingen St. Michael and Gudula Cathedral
Feast	8 January, 19 January in the Diocese of Ghent
Attributes	depicted as a woman with lantern which the devil tries to blow out
Patronage	Brussels, single, laywomen

Saint Gudula was born in the pagus of Brabant (in present-day Belgium). According to her 11th-century biography (Vita Gudilae), written by a monk of the abbey of Hautmont between 1048 and 1051, she was the daughter of a duke of Lotharingia called Witger and Amalberga of Maubeuge. She died between 680 and 714.

Her name is connected to several places:

• Moorsel (where she lived)
• Brussels (where a chapter in her honour was founded in 1047)
• Eibingen (where the relic of her skull is conserved).

In Brabant she is usually called Goedele or Goule; (Latin: Gudila, later Gudula, Dutch: Sinte Goedele, French: Sainte Gudule).