Background
Ida was born into a well-to-do family in Leuven, Duchy of Brabant (now Belgium).
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Career
She was beatified for her piety and humility. Her feast day is April 13. At the age of 22 she felt a religious vocation but her father was a worldly man who would not accept this and subjected her to various forms of ill-treatment to discourage her.
Despite parental disapproval, she first dedicated her life to God in a single cell, and later became a nun in the recently founded Cistercian Abbey of Roosendael (the Valley of the Roses) in what is now Sint-Katelijne-Waver.
One historian has described her as adding "éclat" to the monastery. She received the stigmata, wounds mirroring Christ"s that appeared miraculously and would not heal.
The only record of her life is in a series of letters by her confessor, a priest named Hugh.
