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Saint Pharaildis or Pharailde ((オランダ語:Veerle)) is an 8th-century Belgian saint in Roman Catholicism, and patron saint of Ghent. Her dates are imprecise, but she lived to a great age and died on January 5 at ninety.〔Engelbert, Omer. ''The Lives of the Saints.'' Christopher and Anne Fremantle, trans. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1998. ''Nihil obstat'' 1954.〕 Pharaildis was married against her will at a young age with a nobleman, even after having made a private vow of virginity. Her husband insisted that she was married to him, and her sexual fidelity was owed to him, not God. She was therefore physically abused for her refusal to submit to him, and for her late night visits to churches. When widowed, she was still a virgin,〔 and dedicated herself to charity.〔 According to the ''(Vita Gudilae )'' Pharaildis was the sister of Saint Gudula, Saint Reineldis, and Saint Emebert, but this is not confirmed in her own biography, the ''Vita Pharaildis''.〔 ==Veneration== The cult of Pharaildis has been documented as early as the ninth century. She carries a goose as her insignia. Her feast day is January 5, and her feast, ''Fru Verelde'', was a major festival in Ghent in the late 19th century (according to ''Acte de Pharailde'' 1882).〔 Several miracles are attributed to the saint. Legend says that Pharaildis caused a well to spring up whose waters cured sick children,〔 turned some bread hidden by a miserly woman into stone, and there are accounts of a "goose miracle," in which Pharaildis resuscitated a cooked bird working only from its skin and bones.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pharaildis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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