My family's relationship to:

   

Saints

and some of the popes
who canonized them 

Sainthood runs so strong in my family veins that we in each new generation are urged to "run" for it ourselves. When you look at our violent family hagiology - in which the saint's crown has been achieved mostly by sword in hand - at least you will agree that most of us today qualify for sainthood. Here are just a tiny selection of the dozens of canonized saints in my children's immediate family and their usually violent life stories: 

Name

Birth

Relationship with Daniel and Lalou

St. Adela of Austrasia, perhaps the most beautiful of our saints

670

36th great-grandmother

St. Adelaide of Burgundy, a saintly empress

932

29th great-grandmother

St. Alfred the Great, a saintly king

849

33rd great-grandfather

St. Aelgifu of England, also mother of a saint

921

33rd great-grandmother

St. Arnulf of Metz, retired to monastery after years of warfare

582

37th great-grandfather

St. Bathildis of Neustria, gave birth to 3 kings

625

38th great-grandmother

St. Begga of Landen, founded 7 churches after husband's death

620

41st great-grandmother

St. Bridget of Swedencounseled 3 popes

1303

18th great-grandmother

St. Canute of Denmark, murdered in a church

1043

24th great-grandfather

St. Canute Lavard of Denmark, murdered by his cousin

1091

23rd great-grandfather

St. Charlemagne, first Holy Roman emperor, but a saint?

742

33rd great-grandfather

St. Charles the Good, a continuous defender of the poor

1083

23rd great-granduncle

St. Clotilde, converted her pagan husband

475

42nd great-grandmother

St. Dagobert II, both father and daughters were saints too

652

37th great-grandfather

St. Edgar "the peaceful", founded 30 monasteries 

943

32nd great-grandfather

St. Eric of Sweden, spread the Gospel through his kingdom

1120

24th great-grandfather

St. Ethelbert of Kent, first English lawgiver and baptizer

552

39th great-grandfather

St. Gertrude of Hamage, founded a convent

560

42nd great-grandmother

St. Gregor the Illuminator, brought Christianity to Armenia

257

51st great-grandfather

St. Ida of Nivelles, built a Benedictine monastery  

592

42nd great-grandmother

St. Ladislas of Hungary, mostly a warrior

1025

24th great-granduncle

St. Leopold the Good, had 18 children, fought Hungarians

1102

24th great-grandfather

St. Ludmila of Bohemia, built first Bohemian church

860

31st great-grandmother

St. Margaret of Scotland, worked to help the poor...as a queen

1045

28th great-grandmother

St. Matilda of Saxony, queen who "comforted the sick....."

895

29th great-grandmother

St. Olav II, tried to Christen Norway with the sword

995

27th great-grandfather

St. Olga of Kiev, scalded her husband's murderers to death

881

28th great-grandmother

Pope of Rome, Calixtus II

1050

30th great-granduncle

Pope of Rome, Gregor V, deposed and mutilated anti-pope John

930

28th great-granduncle

Pope of Rome, Leo IX, ended unchastity after Stephen X had son

1002

1st cousin 29 times removed

Pope of Rome, Stephen X, a pope for great-grandfather?

990

32nd great-grandfather

St. Sigebert of Austrasia, incompetent king and saint

631

37th great-grandfather

St. Sigismund of Burgundy, a hot tempered king

470

42nd great-grandfather

St. Stephen the Great, most of his relatives also saints

969

1st cousin 28 times removed

St. Vladimir of Kiev, pagan with 7 wives and idolatrous rites

960

26th great-grandfather

St. William of Toulouse, a Jew turning into ideal Christian knight

765

33rd great-grandfather

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