# Agilberta

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{{Infobox saint
| honorific_prefix = [Saint](/source/Saint)
| name = Agilberta
| birth_date = 
| death_date = 680
| venerated_in=[Roman Catholic Church](/source/Roman_Catholic_Church) <br> [Antiochian Orthodox Church](/source/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Antioch)
| beatified_date=
| death_place=France
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| canonized_date = Pre-congregation
| canonized_by = 
|tradition=Benedictine| feast_day = August 10
}}
thumb|300x300px|Jouarre Abbey church
'''Agilberta''' (d. 680), also known as '''Aguilberta of Jouarre''' and '''Gilberta of Jouarre''',<ref name="catholicsaints">{{Cite web|date=10 June 2012|title=Saint Agilberta of Jouarre|url=https://catholicsaints.info/saint-agilberta-of-jouarre/|access-date=5 June 2020|publisher=Catholic Saints Info.org|language=en-US}}</ref> is a [Benedictine](/source/Benedictines) French saint, venerated in both the [Roman Catholic Church](/source/Roman_Catholic_Church) and [Antiochian Orthodox Church](/source/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Antioch).<ref name="catholicorg">{{Cite web|title=St. Agilberta|url=https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1172|access-date=5 June 2020|publisher=Catholic Online|language=en}}</ref><ref name="antiochian">{{Cite web|title=St. Agilberta of Jouarre, France|url=http://ww1.antiochian.org/node/19371|access-date=5 June 2020|publisher=Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America}}</ref>  She was a nun<ref name="catholicsaints" /> and the second [abbess](/source/abbess) of the [Jouarre Abbey](/source/Jouarre_Abbey), in the [département](/source/Departments_of_France) of [Seine-et-Marne](/source/Seine-et-Marne).  Agilberta was a relative of [Ebrigisil](/source/Eberigisil) and [Ado](/source/St._Ado), who founded Jouarre in 660.  Her brother, [Agilbert](/source/Agilbert), was bishop of Paris.  Agilberta's sister, [Balda](/source/Balda_of_Jouarre), was Jouarre's third abbess.<ref name="catholicorg" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Sainted Women of the Dark Ages|publisher=Duke University Press|year=1992|isbn=9780822382362|editor-last=McNamara|editor-first=Jo Ann|location=Durham, North Dakota|pages=279|translator-last=McNamara|translator-first=Jo Ann|editor-last2=Halborg|editor-first2=John E.|editor-last3=Whatley|editor-first3=E. Gordon}}</ref><ref name="antiochian" />

Agilberta's feast day is August 10th.  She died in 680.<ref name="catholicsaints" /><ref name="antiochian" /> She is buried in the crypt at Jouarre in one of three well-preserved sarcophagi.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bernheimer|first=Richard|date=1938|title=A Sasanian Monument in Merovingian France|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/4520931|journal=Ars Islamica|volume=5|issue=2|pages=221–232|jstor=4520931|issn=1939-6406}}</ref> It is of particular interest to scholars because of its stonework following the Roman burial tradition.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Kibler|first1=William W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jkArDwAAQBAJ&dq=St.+Agilberta&pg=PT2572|title=Routledge Revivals: Medieval France (1995): An Encyclopedia|last2=Zinn|first2=Grover A.|date=2017-07-05|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-351-66565-0|language=en}}</ref>

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==External links==
*[https://www.abbayejouarre.org/ Benedictine Abbey Notre Dame de Jouarre] (in French)

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