A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Adelaide (8)

by Agnes B. C. Dunbar

B. Adelaide (8), of Lanckuvade, or Lenkwend, in Germany, Feb. 13, also called Aleyd the Penitent, c. 1200. She led a wicked life, and the devil tried to stifle her repentance and prevent her conversion by horrible apparitions. She became, however, a holy penitent and nun in the Cistercian convent of Lenkwend. Bucelinus, Men. Ben. Henriquez, Lilia Cist.