Beata Ivetta de Huy

Blessed Ivetta of Huy, born into a wealthy but spiritually indifferent family, endured a life marked by profound sacrifice and divine grace. Forced into an arranged marriage at the age of thirteen, she bore three children, one of whom died in infancy. Widowed at eighteen, she renounced all suitors to dedicate herself to the care of lepers for eleven years while raising her surviving children. This path of radical charity, though met with disapproval