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Biography

Begga

Portrait of Begga

About Begga

Begga is remembered in Andenne as a seventh-century woman associated with a religious community there. Research on Andenne’s manuscripts traces the local cult from the eleventh century, while the French bishops’ calendar records her December 17 commemoration and preserves later family and foundation traditions. The surviving evidence supports the local memory, not a securely established contemporary life.

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