Chapel Sainte Hiltrude - Moustier-en-fagne

This chapel on rue du Bout la Haut was built in 1844 by Désiré Canard. It is dedicated to Saint Hiltrude.

The life of Saint Hiltrude is only known through a late text from the 11th century . According to this text, Hiltrude was the daughter of Wibert, Count of Poitou, and Ade. One day she was promised in marriage to a certain Ugo. The saint refused and preferred to live as a hermit , that is, locked up in a cell at Liessies. Jacques de Guyse attributed a number of miracles to her, which can be called classical, but it must be said that the saint did not inherit great popular devotion. Her only known place of pilgrimage is a chapel in the forest near Liessies, where a fountain flows whose water is said to cure fever, so not this chapel.

Her feast day is nowadays celebrated on September 27 or the Tuesday after the last Sunday in September, but in the past it was celebrated on the Sunday after Ascension Day.

Willem Vandenameele