dedication of Ia. AA.SS. Arnold Forster, Church Dedications. Butler. British Piety (Supplement) says Tia came to Cornwall with SS. Elwin, Breaca, Sinnin, Marnan, Crewenna, Helena, and Tecla.
St. Icelia, Feb. 2, 5th century, was the wife of the prefect, and her piety and munificence gave her some authority in the Church of our Lady; it was in the place called the Old Seat, in the road from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. She brought to Constantinople the custom of celebrating with torches the Hypapante or Purification. In course of time the custom spread all over the Western Churches, and was therefore called Candelaria or Candlemas. Collin de Plancy. Baillet and Guérin mention the institution by her, but do not style her "Saint."
St. Ida (1), June 20, July 18. Her body was first buried in the wall of the Capitol of Cologne. It is preserved in the Church of St. John at Ghent. She is variously called virgin, martyr, widow, abbess, and the mother of St. Ursula. Henschenius, in AA.SS. Sanderus, Flandria Illustrata.
St. Ida (2), of Ireland, Ita.
St. Ida (3), May 5, 17 (Idaberg, Iduberga, Ista, Iste, Itha, Itisberg, Itta, Ydubergue, Ytha, etc.) 7th century. Represented (1) in a group with her husband and daughters, Gertrude (5) and Begga; (2) giving bread to the poor at the door of the monastery. Sometimes called sister of St. Modoald, bishop of Treves. She was a woman of high birth and good fortune, and was the wife of Pepin of Landen, one of the greatest men of the time, both in worldly importance and integrity. Their daughters were the famous SS. Gertrude and Begga, and they had a son, Grimoald, who succeeded his father. St. Ida's fame is lost in that of her younger daughter, St. Gertrude, but it was Ida who, on her husband's death, built the great double monastery of Nivelle on her own estate, and cut off her daughter's hair with her own hands, lest anything should prevent Gertrude from consecrating her life to God there. The mother and daughter gave land and funds to the Irish monks, Foillan and Ultan, at Fosse, or Mors-les-Fossez, to be a perpetual house of hospitality for pilgrims travelling that way. Ida lived five years as a nun under her daughter's rule, assisting her with her advice and care.
Pepin and Ida were buried in the Monastery of Nivelle. Both were called "Blessed" in the Netherlands, and their relics were carried in procession on certain days with those of other saints. Pepin's name was placed in the Litanies by authority of some prelates of the Low Countries, but it has been asserted that the services which were solemnized in their honour at Nivelle previously to the 16th century were not worship, but of the nature of prayers for the dead.
Baillet, "Pepin" (Feb. 1), and the authorities for Gertrude.
St. Ida (4), Sept. 4 (Idda, Itta, Otha, Ydda, Yde, Ytha, etc.), + 813 or 814, was a near kinswoman of Charlemagne, and grandmother of St. Hadumada. The story is that Charlemagne went from Germany into France to quell a revolt (not recorded in secular history). One of the most distinguished of his friends and nobles who joined the expedition was Egbert, a favourite companion of the young king. He was son of Bruno, who ruled over an extensive tract in Westphalia. On the march, Egbert became dangerously ill, and was left at the nearest castle, where he was hospitably cared for by Theodoric, duke of the Ripuarii, whose wife, B. Theodrada, afterwards abbess of Soissons, was the daughter of Count Bernard, son of Charles Martel, and consequently uncle of the emperor.
Giesebrecht and some other writers make Ida the daughter of Bernard, Charlemagne's uncle, and sister of SS. Adalard and Wala, founders and abbots of Corvei (who, however, were more probably her maternal uncles). This would make Theodrada her sister instead of her mother.
Theodoric had a daughter Ida, who became doctor and nurse to the invalid guest, poulticing his sores and fomenting his aches with her own hands.
On the return of the victorious army, Charlemagne halted at the place where he had left his friend, and found that he
