Landrada

Landrada of Austrasia (also called Leandra, died between and 708 ) was a German saint and ascetic. She co-founded Munsterbilsen Abbey, which was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Landrada's feast day is 8 July. She is the patroness saint of Munsterbilsen and Ghent.

Life Landrada was the only daughter of German nobles and part of the family of Pepin of Landen. At an early age, despite being raised in the nobility, she rejected her status and "was regarded, even as a child, as a model of Christian perfection". Baring-Gould also states that Landrada "kept aloof from all worldly pleasures, and devoted whole days to prayer", According to hagiographer Agnes Dunbar, Landrada experienced a vision that communicated the site of the convent: while praying in a lonely place, she saw "a cross of exquisite workmanship" her body, along with a marble sarcophagus, was transported there.

Landrada's feast is celebrated at Muntersbilsen Abbey three days before it is celebrated elsewhere. In 980, her body was translated from Wintershoven to the church of St. Bavo in Ghent, where her feast is celebrated annually. Some fragments of her body were given back to the church of Wintershoven in 1624, and other portions were taken and given to the church at Munsterbilsen.

Landrada's feast day is 8 July. She is the patroness saint of Munsterbilsen and Ghent.