Feastday St. Irmgard: March the 20th
When did St. Irmgard live: Ninth century
Biography of St. Irmgard:
St. Irmgard was born around 800 a.D. at Tours in France and she died on the 20th of march 851 in Erstein in the Alsace region. St. Irmgard was the wife of the Emperor of the Romans Lothar I and together with her daughter she founded the abbey of Erstein, where she was later buried.
Statues and sculptures of St. Irmgard - portrayal, imagery and emblem: The sculpture represents the abbess St. Irmgard with a book and a crown in her hand.