IDA, Bb.

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IDA, BB.

Three cistercian nuns of this name in the 13th century.

Ida of Leeuw; b. Leeuw (Léau), Belgium; d. c. 1260. Sometime after 1216 she entered the convent of La Ramée in Brabant, where she became known for the mystical graces she received and for her love of learning. Her cult spread through Belgium in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Feast: Oct. 30.

Ida of Louvain; b. Louvain, Belgium, early 13th century; d. c. 1300. She entered the Abbey of Roosendael near Malines. Her biography attributed to a certain Hugh, her confessor, is of doubtful historical value but recounts that she received extraordinary mystical graces and was marked with the stigmata. Her relics were venerated in the church of the monastery until the advent of calvin ism. clement xi established her feast for the Cistercians and benedictines in 1719.

Feast: April 13.

Ida of Nivelles; b. Nivelles, Belgium, c. 1190; d. Brabant, Belgium, Dec. 11, 1231. She entered Kerkhem Abbey near Louvain at the age of 16 and moved with her community to La Ramée in 1215. She meditated with special predilection upon the Passion of Christ and had particular devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. She had an apostolic outlook, offering her sufferings for harassed priests and religious. She was reputed to enjoy mystical favors, and she used her supernatural gifts to help others. Shortly before her 33d birthday she died after a long and harrowing illness. Her cult is one of long standing at the convent of La Ramée.

Feast: Dec. 12.

Bibliography: Ida of Leeuw, Bl., and Ida of Louvain, Bl. Acta sanctorum April 2:156–189, Oct. 13:100–124. a. m. zimmermann, Kalendarium Benedictinum 2:49–51; 3:235–236. k. spahr, Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche ² 5:600. m. b. brard, Catholicisme 5:1172–73. Bibliographica hagiographica latina 4144–45. Ida of Nivelles, Bl. Vita, ed. c. henriquez, Quinque prudentes virgines (Antwerp 1630) 199–297. Bibliographica hagiographica latina 4146–47. a. m. zimmermann, Kalendarium Benedictinum 3:421–422. m. b. brard, Catholicisme 5:1173. s. roisin, L'Hagiographie cistercienne dans le diocèse de Liège au XIII ^e siècle (Louvain 1947) 54–59.