Saint Irmgard with Crown Catholic Garden Statues; Saint Irmgard of Suchteln
September 4th
† Cologne, September 4, 1089
At Cologne in Lotharingia, in present-day Germany, Saint Irmgard, who, countess of Süchteln, committed all her goods to the building of churches.
She was the daughter of Count Godizo of Aspel, in the Lower Rhine, a relative of Saint Henry II and his wife Saint Cunegonda. Above the tomb of her parents, in Rees, Irmengarda had a church built in honor of the Blessed Virgin; Henry III granted her many lands in Belgium and Holland on February 15, 1041, and Pope St. Leo IX visited her in Aspel in 1049. Shortly afterwards she left her father's house and became a hermit in Suechteln. After a pilgrimage to Rome, she lived in Cologne, from where she brought back to Rome, in a second pilgrimage, some earth from the cemetery of St. Ursula, which was transformed into blood. He died around 1089, probably on September 4 in Cologne. His tomb is located behind the high altar in the cathedral of this city.
As early as 1319 she was granted the title of saint; her feast day was celebrated on 4th September and 10th November and the cult flourished particularly in Cologne, Rees, Suechteln and Aspel. Irmengarda is depicted as a noble lady with a crown on her head, in one hand the model of a church, in the other a staff. P. Nuremberg thinks that Irmengarda should be identified with Irmentrude, Countess of the House of Luxembourg, whose name appears frequently in 11th-century Rhineland maps.
September 4th
† Cologne, September 4, 1089
At Cologne in Lotharingia, in present-day Germany, Saint Irmgard, who, countess of Süchteln, committed all her goods to the building of churches.
She was the daughter of Count Godizo of Aspel, in the Lower Rhine, a relative of Saint Henry II and his wife Saint Cunegonda. Above the tomb of her parents, in Rees, Irmengarda had a church built in honor of the Blessed Virgin; Henry III granted her many lands in Belgium and Holland on February 15, 1041, and Pope St. Leo IX visited her in Aspel in 1049. Shortly afterwards she left her father's house and became a hermit in Suechteln. After a pilgrimage to Rome, she lived in Cologne, from where she brought back to Rome, in a second pilgrimage, some earth from the cemetery of St. Ursula, which was transformed into blood. He died around 1089, probably on September 4 in Cologne. His tomb is located behind the high altar in the cathedral of this city.
As early as 1319 she was granted the title of saint; her feast day was celebrated on 4th September and 10th November and the cult flourished particularly in Cologne, Rees, Suechteln and Aspel. Irmengarda is depicted as a noble lady with a crown on her head, in one hand the model of a church, in the other a staff. P. Nuremberg thinks that Irmengarda should be identified with Irmentrude, Countess of the House of Luxembourg, whose name appears frequently in 11th-century Rhineland maps.
