Blessed Haberilia

Haberilia (died c. 1100 in Bregenz-Mehrerau; occasionally also referred to as Haberilla, Habril(l)a, or by the additions Haberilia of Mehrerau or Haberilia of Bregenz) was a recluse who lived in or near Mehrerau Abbey, close to Bregenz, during the 11th or 12th century and was venerated as a blessed in the Roman Catholic Church. Her grave in the abbey church became a place of pilgrimage over the centuries due to miraculous healings of children attributed to her. With the reconstruction of the former Romanesque basilica in 1740, the grave was initially relocated within the new Baroque abbey church, but was ultimately lost with the destruction of that church during the secularization enforced by Bavarian rule in 1808. Toward the end of the 18th century, the veneration of Haberilia in Vorarlberg also largely came to an end.