Born in 785, Radbertus was orphaned and abandoned on the steps of St Mary’s convent in Soissons (France), where he was raised by the nuns, developing a close bond with the Abbess Theodrara (a cousin of Charlemagne). Radbertus took the Benedictine habit, but subsequently decided that, having spent his entire life inside convents and [...]
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St Paschasius Radbertus
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