Santa Adela (? - 735) and Saint Irmina (? - 716) were daughters of Dagobert II. Dagobert ascended to the throne of Austrasia to the seven years of age, after the death of Sigeberto III, but quickly was deposed. Dagobert fled to Ireland, returned to Metz in 673 and claimed the throne. During the exile, he married an Anglo-Saxon princess named Matilda and had five children, including the saints Adela and Irmina.
Both women were promised marriage to noble men, but the two were widowed. Irmina died her fiance before marriage and founded a Benedictine convent in Horren in Trier. When an epidemic threatened his community, he gained the help of St. Willibrordo. When the plague passed through the convent, he gave Willibrordo the lands for his abbey in Echternach.
Adela married and had a son with her husband Alberico. Alberico died within a few years of marriage. Despite multiple offers of marriage, she chose to take the sacred orders. He founded the convent of Palatiolum in lands that were then undeveloped on the outskirts of Trier. The place became with time in the city of Pfalzel. It was the first abbess of this convent and died the 24 of December of 735.
The feast of both saints is December 24.
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