Radegunda

Radegunda (pia: Rhadegund, Radegonde, Radigund; 520 hivi – 13 Agosti 587) alikuwa malkia wa Wafaranki kutokana na ndoa yake na mfalme Klotari I, lakini alitokea Thuringia, leo nchini Ujerumani.

Mt. Radegunda.

Baada ya kufaulu kumkimbia mumewe, aliyekuwa na wake wengine watano, mwaka 560 alianzisha abasia huko Poitiers, leo nchini Ufaransa, alipofahamika kwa maisha magumu na kwa kutunza na kuponya wagonjwa na ambapo ndipo alipofariki.

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa na Wakatoliki na Waorthodoksi kama mtakatifu.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa katika tarehe ya kifo chake.

Tazama pia

• Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
• Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

Vyanzo

• Gregory of Tours, Glory of the Confessors, translation by R. Van Dam (Liverpool, 1988)
• Gregory of Tours, Glory of the Martyrs; translated by Raymond Van Dam. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004.
• Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks; translation by L. Thorpe (Penguin, 1974: many reprints)
• Venantius Fortunatus, The Life of the Holy Radegund Archived 3 Machi 2016 at the Wayback Machine.; translation by J. McNamara and J. Halborg
• Lina Eckenstein, Woman Under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896.
• Edwards, Jennifer C. Superior Women: Medieval Female Authority in Poitiers' Abbey of Sainte-Croix. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Glenn, Jason. "Two Lives of Saint Radegund," in Jason Glenn (ed.), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2012
• Labande-Mailfert, Yvonne & Robert Favreau, eds. Histoire de l’abbaye Sainte-Croix de Poitiers: Quatorze siècles de vie monastique. Poitiers: Société des Antiquaires de l’Ouest, 1986.
• Lillich, Meredith Parsons. The Armor of Light: Stained Glass in Western France, 1250–1325. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
• Hahn, Cynthia. Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
• Smith, Julia M. H. "Radegundis peccatrix: authorizations of virginity in late antique Gaul," in Philip Rousseau and Emmanuel Papoutsakis (eds), Transformations of Late Antiquity: essays for Peter Brown Vol. 2 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), 303–326.
• Jane Stevenson (2005). Women Latin Poets: language, gender, and authority, from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Oxford University Press. 

Viungo vya nje

• Other Women's Voices Useful guide to some of the works on Radegund including links to on-line materials.

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