Marie of Oignies

Marie of Oignies (born Nivelles, now Belgium, 1177, died 1213) was a Beguine, known from the Life written by Jacques de Vitry, for Fulk of Toulouse.Andre Vauchez, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (2001 translation), p. 907.. This account helped gain papal approval for the Beguines William Westcott Kibler, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia (1995), p. 484..
She is beatified in the Catholic church, with the feast day of June 23.
==References==
*Margot H. King and Hugh Feiss (translators), Two Lives of Marie d'Oignies, by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpré (4th edition, 1998)
==Notes==
==External links==
*Vita, online Latin text
Category:1177 births
Category:1213 deaths
Category:People from Nivelles
Category:13th-century Christian saints
Category:Belgian saints
Category:Belgian Roman Catholic saints
Category:Beguines and Beghards
Category:Female saints
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